P. Turin Cat. 2022
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Description: Medium brown p apyrus, 14.3 x 15.8 cm . Black ink, rect o (V/H) 6 lines, vers o (H/V) 7 lines; top recto = bottom verso ; see Remarks . Damaged; beginnings and ends of al lines lost (perhaps with exception of the beginning of rect o 3); vers o 7 illegible; only traces of rect o 1; unknown number of lines lost at top recto and bottom verso. See Remarks.
Classification: letter
Keywords: arrival(?) (see Remarks) - bread - commissioning - junior - Necropolis
Provenance: Presumably acquired by the government of Piedmont for the Turin museum from Bernardino Drovetti in 1823 (see e.g. S. Curto, Storia del Museo Egizio di Torino , 2nd ed., Turin 1976, 45).
Publication: Unpublished; Cern MSS.3.595 (transcription); see Remarks
Dates mentioned: [...] sw 6 (verso 7?); see Remarks
Dates attributed: -
Contents: Letter by an unknown writer to the workmen or their superiors, urging them to carry out the orders of the king, so that they will receive food deliveries, and telling them that they should not be afraid of being attacked (thi ).
Terminology: -
Names/Titles: an. ( nA aDd.w ; rect o 4); an. ( nA bAk.w n Pr-aA anx wDA snb ; vers o 1 - pAy= tn nb [...] ; see Remarks ); an. ( Pr-aA anx wDA snb ; king; rect o 6 , vers o 3 - pAy= tn nb [...] ; see Remarks ) ; an. ( nA rwD.w.w ; verso 5?); an. ( nA rmT n pA 2r Sps.y ; recto ~2#)
Remarks: Description: what Cern ( MSS.3.595 ) called verso is probably the first part of the text. Description, Publication: collated by R.J. Demarée, May 1991. Keywords: probably read spr in verso 7 (R.J. Demarée). Date mentioned: possibly sw 6 in verso 7 (R.J. Demarée). Names, Titles: instead of pAy=i nb (Cern MSS.3.595 ) read pAy=tn [ nb ] in verso 1 and 3.

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