A. G. McDowell, Hieratic Ostraca in the Hunterian Museum
Glasgow.
120 pp; 30.5 x 21 cm; 65 line drawings; cloth 0 900416 59 9;
1993. £25.00.
This volume presents the twenty-seven limestone and hieratic
ostraca collected by the
Reverend Colin Campbell in Egypt at the turn of the century
and donated by him to the
Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. All but one come from the New
Kingdom community of
Deir el-Medina, the exception being a Ptolemaic copy of the
Offering of the mnw-vase,
hitherto known only from inscriptions. The main group of
ostraca contains hymns,
magical, literary, administrative, legal and economic texts.
Particularly interesting
examples include a letter about the inheritance of a group of
slaves, and what appears to
be a record of a son's support for his retired father. Many
of these texts are published
here for the first time; they are presented in facsimiles and
transcriptions, and furnished
with full translation and commentary. Indexes of personal
names and Egyptian words
dicussed in the commentary complete the book.
Page 29.
Plate i.
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