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Inventory number

Cat.2026

  • Document
  • Writing Recto
  • Writing Verso

General description

Besides information about their authors, letters contain vital information about the private lives of individuals. Quite often, the careful studies of letters reveal how ordinary, but also how unusual the life of men and especially women in pharaonic history could be.

Epoch

New Kingdom (1539-1077 BC)

Dynasty

Dynasty 20 (1190-1077 BC)

Pharaoh

Ramesses XI (Menmaatre Setepenptah)

Provenance

Thebes/Deir el-Medina (?)

Joining object(s) (log into TPOP)

Image(s)

Image

  • Text 1

Script

hieratic

Text type

Letter

Keywords

document, junior, message, commissioning, weaponry, temple, boat

Place name

Egypt (km.t)

Epoch

New Kingdom (1539-1077 BC)

Dynasty

Dynasty 20 (1190-1077 BC)

Pharaoh

Ramesses XI (Menmaatre Setepenptah)

Drawing

No

Drawing description

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Bibliographical reference

Černý, LRL, pp. XIV; pp. 71–74 (OEB 136743);

Janssen, Late Ramesside letters, pls. CIII–CIV (OEB 32799);

Wente, Late Ramesside Letters, pp. 83–85 (OEB 16975);

Wente, Letters, pp. 189–190, no. 312 (OEB 32800).

Deir el-Medina Database

Image

  • Text 1

Script

hieratic

Text type

Letter

Keywords

boat, weaponry, temple, document, message, junior, commissioning

Epoch

New Kingdom (1539-1077 BC)

Dynasty

Dynasty 20 (1190-1077 BC)

Pharaoh

Ramesses XI (Menmaatre Setepenptah)

Drawing

No

Drawing description

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Bibliographical reference

see recto
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