Ostracon Deir el-Medineh 251

Metadata

knowledge domains
Present location
Africa » Egypt » Cairo » Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale

Inventory number: 792

Online collections
Find spot
Asyut to First Cataract » Thebes » West Bank » Deir el-Medina
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
letter
Material
Man made material » Pottery
Object type
Artefact » Writing surfaces » Ostracon
Script
Hieratic » Ramesside Hieratic
Language
Egyptian-Coptic » Egyptian » Late Egyptian
Editions

- Černý 1939: J. Černý, Catalogue des ostraca hiératiques non littéraires de Deir el Médineh. Tome IV (Nos 242 à 339), Documents de fouilles de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale 6 (Le Caire 1937), 3 and pl. 3.

Bibliographic references

- Allam 1973: S. Allam, Hieratische Ostraka und Papyri aus der Ramessidenzeit, Urkunden zum Rechtsleben im Alten Ägypten 1 (2 Vol.) (Tübingen 1973), 112 (No. 87).

- Borghouts 1982: J. F. Borghouts, Divine Intervention in Ancient Egypt and its Manifestation (bꜣw), in: R. J. Demarée – J. J. Janssen (eds.), Gleanings from Deir el-Medîna, Egyptologische Uitgaven 1 (Leiden 1982), 1–70, here: 15–19.

- Green 1979: M. A. Green, Bꜣw Expression in Late Egyptian, in: J. Ruffle – G. A. Gaballa – K. A. Kitchen (eds.): Glympses of Ancient Egypt – Studies in Honour of H.W. Fairman (Warminster 1979), 107–115, here: 108 and 113 (No. C2).

- McDowell 1999: A. G. McDowell, Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs (New York 1999), 102 (No. 74).

- Neveu 2001: F. Neveu, La particule ḫr en néo-égyptien. Étude synchronique, Études et Mémoires d’Égyptologie 4 (Paris 2001), 26 (example 53).

- Wente 1990: E. F. Wente, Letters from Ancient Egypt, Writings from the Ancient World 1 (Atlanta 1990), 141 (No. 182) with 170, annot. 6.

Online ressources
Author
Dr. Peter Dils

Translation and Commentary

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