Ostracon
12.0cm
19.0cm
limestone
2.0cm
Limestone ostracon decorated on two sides with black ink. It is dated to the 16th year (of Thutmose III), days 8 and 9 of 1st month of akhet and contains 22 lines of text on recto and 11 lines on verso. Lines 11-21 were written upside down and crossed out by the scribe. The ostracon described two days of work at the tomb of Senenmut TT 353.
Found in the winter season 1926-1927 near the entrance to the tomb of Sen-en-mut TT 353.
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Bibliography:
- Hayes, William C., A Selection of Tuthmoside Ostraca from Dēr El-Baḥri, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 46, 1960, 39-41, Pl(s). XII, XIA, ostracon no. 13
- Helck, Wolfgang, Zur Verwaltung des Mittleren und Neuen Reichs, Probleme der Ägyptologie 3, Leiden, Köln 1958, 363, 475
- Winlock, Herbert Eustis, The Egyptian Expedition 1925-1927: The Museum's Excavations at Thebes, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 23.2, 1928, 30