Bird oracle fragment. Although very little is preserved of this tablet, the presence of sentences with movement of birds by “the river” suggest this is an early text (Early New Kingdom/pre-Imperial age). The few early diagnostic sign forms seem to confirm this dating.

• D. Groddek, DBH 33, 2011: 185
• Y. Sakuma, Diss., 2009: II 619f.

Handcopy: Ch. Rüster (KBo 47, Otten H. et al. 2005a).

Edition: Sakuma Y. 2009b, II 619-620.

Transliteration: Groddek D. 2011a, 185.

MS (mh.); diagnostic signs: AL, IT.

A reliable palaeographic analysis is constrained by the limited sample of signs from this fragment.