Letter from Djehutimes to his son Butehamun
Cat. 1972 is a letter from Deir el-Medina written in the hieratic script, dating to the 20th Dynasty. It is the first letter written by the scribe Djehutimes to his son who is in Thebes, the scribe of the necropolis Butehamun. In this letter he addresses his son and the chantress of Amun, called Shedemduat, and informs them that he has been taken by boat to Edfu and subsequently reaching the general at Elephantine. Djehutimes asks them to pray to Amun in order to come back home safely and he recommends Butehamun to perform his duties: he must give to the children and to the servants of Shedemduat, the daughter of Khonsumose, as well as to the soldiers everything they need. The letter ends with a further request, addressed to some workmen, to pray to Amun and the other gods so that Djehutimes could come back alive.
New Kingdom (1539-1077 BC)
Dynasty 20 (1190-1077 BC)
Ramesses XI (Menmaatre Setepenptah)
Thebes/Deir el-Medina (?)
Acquisition: Drovetti, Bernardino
Acquisition Date: 1824
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Anne-Claude Honnay (ACH, Ramses Online), Laurence Neven (LH, Ramses Online)
Leonardo Fioretti (LF), Matthias Müller (MM)
hieratic
Letter
army, arrival, beer, boat, bread, document, enemy, junior, message, oil
Elephantine (Abw), Edfu (DbA)
New Kingdom (1539-1077 BC)
Dynasty 20 (1190-1077 BC)
Ramesses XI (Menmaatre Setepenptah)
No
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Černý, LRL, pp. 7–8; pls. VII–VIII (OEB 136743);
Donadoni, Egyptian civilization, I, p. 30, pl. XVIII (OEB 198892);
Janssen, Late Ramesside letters, pl. XCIV (OEB 32799);
Porten, The Elephantine papyri in English, p. 60 (OEB 37156);
Spiegelberg, Correspondances, pp. 33–35 (OEB 150674);
Wente, Late Ramesside letters, pp. 24–27 (OEB 16975);
Wente, Letters, pp. 185–185, no. 308 (OEB 32800).
English translation in preparation
for the German translation see Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae
for the French translation log in
Laurence Neven (LH, Ramses Online), Anne-Claude Honnay (ACH, Ramses Online)
Leonardo Fioretti (LF), Matthias Müller (MM)
hieratic
Letter
army, arrival, beer, boat, bread, document, junior, enemy, message, oil
New Kingdom (1539-1077 BC)
Dynasty 20 (1190-1077 BC)
Ramesses XI (Menmaatre Setepenptah)
No
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