ostracon
- Museum number
- EA5644
- Description
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Pottery ostracon: on one side (convex) only, seven lines of an incomplete text concerning payment made by Amenemope to the carpenter Meryre for a bed.
- Dimensions
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Height: 13 centimetres
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Weight: 391 grammes
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Thickness: 2.70 centimetres
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Width: 15 centimetres
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Depth: 4 centimetres (overall depth footprint of object)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Text: J. J. Černy and A.H. Gardiner, ‘Hieratic Ostraca’ (Oxford 1957), pl. 5644.3
For similar transactions between the same persons cf. O. Brooklyn Ace. No. 37.1880E (K. Kitchen, 'Ramesside Inscriptions' Vll (Oxford 1989), 310—11 [wrongly dated Ramses III]).
Bibliography:
S. Birch, 'Inscriptions in the Hieratic and Demotic Character, from the Collections of the British Museum' (London 1868), pl. XXIV;
J. J. Černy and A.H. Gardiner, ‘Hieratic Ostraca’ (Oxford 1957), p. 23 and pl. LXXXVI, 3;
J.J. Janssen, 'Commodity Prices from the Ramessid Period' (Leiden, 1975), p. 80;
K. Kitchen, 'Ramesside Inscriptions' V (Oxford 1983), 589-90.
I. Regulski (ed.), Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt (London 2022), pp. 201-2
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2001 26 Jun-23 Sep, Birmingham Gas Hall, Egypt Revealed
2022-2023 13 Oct-19 Feb, London, BM, Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1823
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA5644
- Registration number
- .5644
