Body sherd from a pottery vessel with cream slip on exterior, re-used as an ostracon, bearing parts of five lines of hieratic in black on the exterior, giving a passage from the Satire of Trades (corresponding to Papyrus Sallier II, 4,7-8). Stephen Quirke translated this in 2015 as '[I do not see a sculptor on a mission
or a goldsmith on the task of] being despatched (?)
[but I do see the coppersmith] at [his] toil
[at the mouth of his fur]nace
his fingers like crocodile skin
his stench worse than fish eggs
The word “fish” in the last line of the ostracon is followed by a year-month-day date in year 6 of an unidentified king.
