O. Gardiner 363: A Spell Against Night Terrors

Abstract

The ostracon is drawn in full scale on Plate 109, and measures approximately 20 by 25 cm. This text, like most of the ostraca in the publication, probably derives from Deir el-Medineh, and would thus be of Ramesside date, a conclusion compatible with the paleography of the inscription.3 A representative sample of this hieratic inscription was reproduced separately only for line 6 of the recto, while the complete text of the recto was transcribed into hieroglyphs on the plate (see fig. 1). No reproduction of the verso was given, and no photograph of either face of the ostracon has been published. The piece is now in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum