The Ostracon.
This is a 3,200-year-old attendance sheet taken at work in Ancient Kemet/Egypt. The New Egyptian hieratic script was written on limestone in red and black ink and provided information such as the date (season and number), the name of the worker, and the reason for being absent.
For example, on month 4 of Winter, day 24, a worker by the name of Pennub was absent from work because his mother was sick, and he had to take care of her.
Here are some of the other reasons provided for work absence:
1. Drinking with Khonsu
2. His daughter was bleeding
3. Libating to his father
4. Brewing beer
5. Building his house
6. Fetching stone for the scribe
7. With Khons making remedies
8. Making remedies for the scribe's wife
9. Suffering with his eye
10. Embalming Hormose
11. Strengthening the door
12. Embalming his brother
13. His wife is bleeding
14. The scorpion bit him
15. His feast
16. Offering to the god

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