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(wdpw) said the 2 chief workmen, the Tomb-Scribe (Bg:5) and those present, (belonging) to the Tomb, “There shall not be given to you 2 portions just like today”. (B9:6) Year 17, 3“ Peret 23: On this day, there went up to the Great Tract, the Vizier, the High Priest (of Amun), (Bg:7) the Royal Cupbearer (wdpw nswt) and Treasury-Chief Nesamun, the Scribe of Pharaoh, L.P.H., to receive the work(?), (Bg:8) at the great and noble Tomb of Millions of Years of Pharaoh, L.P.H., The workforce of the [Tomb] complained to them, (Bg:9) saying: “We are weak, we're starving. Nobody gives us the supplies assigned to us (by) Pharaoh, L.P.H.!” (B9:10) (Then) the Vizier, the High Priest, and Cupbearer (wdpw) and Treasury-Chief of Pharaoh said: “The workmen (Bg:11) of the Tomb are in the right”. Text edition: Botti, G. — Peet, T. E. Il giornale della necropoli di Tebe. Fratelli Bocca, Torino, 1928, 14-18, 26-27, pls. 24-25. Kitchen, K. A. Ramesside Inscriptions. Historical and Biographical. Vol. VI. B. H. Blackwell, Oxford, 1983b, 566-581. Translation: Botti, G. — Peet, T. E. Il giornale della necropoli di Tebe. Fratelli Bocca, Torino, 1928, 14-18, 26-27, pls. 24-25. Helck, W. Die datierten und datierbaren Ostraka, Papyri und Graffiti von Deir el-Medineh. Agyptologische Abhandlungen 63. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2002, 529. Kitchen, K. A. Ramesside Inscriptions. Translated and Annotated: Translations. Vol. V1. Ramesses IV to XI, and Contemporaries. Wiley Blackwell, Oxford, 2012, 420-428. Publication: Botti, G. — Peet, T. E. Il giornale della necropoli di Tebe. Fratelli Bocca, Torino, 1928, 14-18, 26-27, pls. 24-25. General literature about the owner: Helck, W. Zur Verwaltung des Mittleren und Neuen Reichs. Probleme der Agyptologie 3. Brill, Leiden, 1958, 336-339, 415-417, 520. Schulman, A. R. “The Royal Butler Ramessessami‘on.” Chronique d’Egypte 61, 1986, 201. Schulman, A. R. “The Royal Butler Ramessessami‘on. An Addendum.” Chronique d'Egypte 65, 1990, 18.
