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mrj-Jmn nh wa3 snb\!°8 (5) "ij + htmw n p3 hr jw [Sn p3 3 njs.t] (6) 2 p3 s$ Jmn-nht ss H rj-srj 8 js.tr-"dr! [s.t] [Year x, yth month, zth day]: [on this day, arrival by the High Priest of Amen-Re, King of the Gods, Ramses]sesnakht, the Royal Cupbearer (wdpw nswt), Amenkha, the Royal Cupbearer (wdpw nswt), [Hori, the Mayor of] Thebes, the Scribe of the Mat of Thebes, Hori, the Scribe of Accounts, Paser [..................... ], the Deputy of the Granary, Meriptah, and the Setem-priest [of the Temple of the King of Southern and Northern Egypt, Usimare Meriamun, (L.H.P.), Thut[mose], came to the guardpost of the Tomb, they sommulned the] 2 [chief workmen], the Scribe Amennakht, the Scribe Horshire, and the entire workforce. Verso (I) jw s$ 83 js.t bnr jw=w hgr.w [r dd] (2) j.jr.n s$ bnr jw=n 'hqr.w! (3) jw mn h.t smw rm [n p2] (4) hr jw=tw hr jj r ndnd r3 n 'srw! (5) 8 Tqnb.t jw=w hr dd m3“t! [... ...] The workforce had gone out, hungry, saying: “Because we’re hungry we have gone out — there’s no wood, vegetables or fish [for the] Tomb.” (So), they (one) came to take advice of/consult with the notables/magistrates of the court. They said: “In the right [are the men of the Tomb!”] Text edition: Eyre, C. J. “A ‘strike’ text from the Theban necropolis.” In Ruffle, J. — Gaballa, G. A. — Kitchen, K. A. (eds.): Glimpses of ancient Egypt. Studies in honour of H. W. Fairman. Aris & Phillips, Warminster, 1979, 80-91. Kitchen, K. A. Ramesside Inscriptions, Historical and Biographical. Vol. VI. B. H. Blackwell, Oxford, 1983b, 151-152. Translation: Eyre, C. J. “A ‘strike’ text from the Theban necropolis.” In Ruffle, J. — Gaballa, G. A. — Kitchen, K. A. (eds.): Glimpses of ancient Egypt. Studies in honour of H. W. Fairman. Aris & Phillips, Warminster, 1979, 80-91. Helck, W. Die datierten und datierbaren Ostraka, Papyri und Graffiti von Deir el-Medineh. Agyptologische Abhandlungen 63. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2002, 514. 143 Kitchen, 1983b, 152, restoration based on the same volume 97, 7. Eyre doubts this reconstruction as the space is not enough for the whole name of the king. Eyre, 1979, 82, m.
