Reproduction
Object Category
manuscripts (object)
Description
Fragmentary hieratic papyri, mounted in one frame. B). Fragmentary letter with one column and eight lines on recto, two columns on verso, in black; torn, mud attaching to both sides, with parys of left, right and upper edges intact. This letter deals with the flax harvest and assigning men to it. Unfortunately it is unreadable after the first five lines; the “thousand” that appears may be part of another word. It is just possible that this is the letter referred to in UC32118D; as both deal with flax and both use an idiomatic word for “assign”.
Text has been translated as:
'[A brother] speaks to his brother. Renefib says to the overseer of the temple [Iuf]:
..................] of which I reminded you
saying: “If men
are lacking
for the flax you will have to
have [.........] assigned [.............................................................................................................
..................................................................................................................................................
...] 1000 [?] [..............................................................................................................................'.
Collection Place
Lahun
Collection Place Notes
Kahun, Workmens' Town
Production Period
late Middle Kingdom
Material
Dimensions
Fragment height: 13.6 cms
Fragment width: 13.4 cms
Frame height: 30.5 cms
Frame width: 30.5 cms
Frame depth: 0.9 cms
Accession Number
LDUCE-UC32113b
Administration Name
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology