O DM 6788

Identifier ODM_6788
Title O DM 6788
Description The ostracon measures 12 x 25 cm. It is chipped off at all sides, merely damaging one mark in the top right. Only the obverse is inscribed. It shows 42 diff erent marks in red ink. Each mark has one dot in red ink.
Date 2024-12-11 09:52:52 +0000
Other inv. nos IFAO OL 6788; Bruyère 1; 10401
Provenance Deir el-Medina, Qurnet Murai North (KGP, GMN 18.1.51)
Preservation Nearly complete. The ink is well preserved and readable.
Find date 1951-01-18
Material Limestone.
Transcription

Recto

1, , 3, , 5, , , 8, , , , , ,

Verso

Z, ?, 

Interpretation

The marks represent the turnus of the right side of the crew from the reign of Ramesses V. The following identifications have been made:

1 = Workman, = Workman, 3 = Workman, = Workman, 5 = Workman, = Workman,  = Workman, 8 = Workman, = Workman, = Workman, = Workman, = Workman,  = Workman, = Workman, Z = Workman, ? = Workman, = Workman

Remarks Compare ostraca Stockholm MM 14130, MMA 09.184.700, Petrie Museum UC 45709, IFAO ONL 6210, IFAO ONL 6298, OWV 01, OWV 03, OWV 10, IFAO ONL 6214 and IFAO ONL 6216

[Bruyère 1953] Bernard Bruyère, Rapport sur les fouilles de Deir El Médineh (années 1948 à 1951) / par Bernard Bruyère. [Le grand puits et les tombes du secteur Nord-Est], Le Caire, Institut français d’archéologie orientale, Fouilles de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire, 1953, pl XVIII nr. 01. [Bruyère 1953] Bernard Bruyère, Deir el-Médineh, 1950-1951, BFSE, 1953 p.4.(MS_2004_167_007)