Ostracon British Museum EA 5639

Metadata

knowledge domains
Alternative Names
TM 393227
Present location
Europe » Great Britain » (Cities K-N) » London » British Museum

Inventory number: BM EA 5639

Online collections
Find spot
Asyut to First Cataract » Thebes » West Bank
Date
from: Era and Dynasty Dates » Pharaonic Period » New Kingdom » 19th Dynasty to: Era and Dynasty Dates » Pharaonic Period » New Kingdom » 20th Dynasty
Text type
recitation(s) » ritual/liturgy
Material
Non organic » Stone » Limestone
Object type
Artefact » Writing surfaces » Ostracon
Script
Hieratic
Language
Egyptian-Coptic » Egyptian » Middle Egyptian
Editions

- Birch 1868: S. Birch, Inscriptions in the Hieratic and Demotic Character, from the Collections of the British Museum (London 1868), 7 and pl. XVII.

- Demarée 2002: R. J. Demarée, Ramesside Ostraca (London 2002), 19 and pl. 34.

Bibliographic references

- Assmann 2005: J. Assmann, Altaegyptische Totenliturgien 2. Totenliturgien und Totensprüche in Grabinschriften des Neuen Reiches (Heidelberg 2005), 128 and 145–146.

- J. J. Černy, Notebook 22, 4 (unpublished, incomplete). (mentioned in https://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/cerny-17-22) (13.12.2022)

- Fischer-Elfert 2015: H.-W. Fischer-Elfert, Magika Hieratika in Berlin, Hannover, Heidelberg und München, Ägyptische und Orientalische Papyri und Handschriften des Ägyptischen Museums und Papyrussammlung Berlin, 2 (Berlin/München/Boston 2015), 373–384.

- Haring 2020: B. Haring, The Survival of Pharaonic Ostraca: Coincidence or Meaningful Patterns?, in: C. Caputo – J. Lougovaya (eds.), Using Ostraca in the Ancient World: New Discoveries and Methodologies, Materiale Textkulturen 32 (Berlin 2020), 89–108.

Online ressources
Author
Dr. Peter Dils

Translation and Commentary

For complete metadata, translation, and commentary, see German version.