Page 548 [548]
OCR
Cupbearer (wdpw nswt), Atumnakht, (16) the Royal Cupbearer (wdpw nswt), Sobekhotep, and the chief embalmer'°”, Pa-iry, (17) to cause to be installed (“to repose”) the jobs ordered, namely the major order of granite (work). (18) They installed the meru-wood chest (g3z) , and (19) they put its lid upon it. They placed (20) the gdt’s lid(?) with them, on the south side'°® at the s 3 of the granite chest. (21) And they caused the alabaster (22) chest to be dragged along, to install it in the meru-wood chest. (23) They(?) fastened it to it(?) excellently, it being secured inside it, (24) (ready) for the silverwork. They caused the craftsmen/carpenters of the Place of Truth (25) to polish(?) it, while the Royal Cupbearer (wdpw nswt) Kha"5 oversaw (‘attended to’) them. Verso, Col. IV (14) The royal butler (wdpw nswt) Amenkhau sent for (15) 4 alabaster-engravers together with 2 men, (16) and they peeked(?) into the lower section of the corridor. (17) The scribe Amennakht took them in the tomb and they (18) spent the night sculpting the outside of (19) the alabaster shrine as well as its inside until (20) morning. They finished with it and they painted it (21) as well again. Text edition: Pleyte, W. — Rossi, F. Papyrus de Turin. Brill, Leiden, 1869-1876, 139, pl. 104-105. Allam, S. Hieratische Ostraka und Papyri aus der Ramessidenzeit. Schafik Allam, Tübingen, 1973, 132-133. Kitchen, K. A. Ramesside Inscriptions, Historical and Biographical. Vol. VI. B. H. Blackwell, Oxford, 1983b, 244-245. Translation: Helck, W. Die datierten und datierbaren Ostraka, Papyri und Graffiti von Deir el-Medineh. Agyptologische Abhandlungen 63. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2002, 418. Kitchen, K. A. Ramesside Inscriptions, Translated and Annotated: Translations. Vol. VI. Ramesses IV to XI, and Contemporaries. Wiley Blackwell, Oxford, 2012, 188-189. *°» According to the personal communication of Dr Robert Demarée, based on a newly foud fragment of the papyrus, the titel is not hrj pd.t ‘troop commander’ as Kitchen transcribed it, but rj wt ‘chief embalmer’. “3 According to the personal communication of Dr Robert Demarée, the titel is not s3 nfr ‘good side’ as Kitchen transcribed it, but hr rsj ‘south side’. 154 Amenkhau.
