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Ostr. London, BM EA 45035

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Metadata

Collection

Collection London, British Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. London, BM EA 45035
Publication Number TAD D.7.20
Publication Permission Status no permission for publication necessary

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1907 and 1907
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Ready, William Talbot
Certainty:
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Junker, Hermann
Certainty:

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating of Object 27th Dynasty
Range of Preservation (undecidable)
Mounting (unknown)

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object two-sided
Script, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Text Layout 5 lines and 5 lines.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 5 5
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Missive From Natan and Yedanyah to Mîkyah. Re: Come Or Send Word.
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: unknown)
Multilingualism Monolingual
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
HL (variants)
cc. 01. ‮ שלם מיכיה מן נתן בר גמריה
cc. 02. ‮ כען אתה על מחר ולא פשרן
cc. 03. ‮ הלו שכר הו ל⸢ה⸣ למחר
cc. 04. ‮ כען אל תפשר למאתה
cc. 05. ‮ מחר
cv. 01. ‮ שלם מיכיה מן ידניה כענת
cv. 02. ‮ הלו שלחת לך אתמל בשם
cv. 03. ‮ הודויה בר זכריה לם
cv. 04. ‮ ⸢א⸣תה ליומא זנה ולא
cv. 05. ‮ אתית ביד בנתי שלח[ת]/ל⸢י⸣
CC
1שלמ מיכיה מנ נתנ בר גמריה
2כענ אתה על מחר ולא פשרנ
3הלו שכר הו ל⸢ה⸣ למחר
4כענ אל תפשר למאתה
5מחר
CV
1שלמ מיכיה מנ ידניה כענת
2הלו שלחת לכ אתמל בשמ
3הודויה בר זכריה למ
4אתה ליומא זנה ולא
5אתית ביד בנתי שלח\ל⸢י⸣/
CC
1Greetings, Mîkyah. From Natan son of Gemaryah.
2Now, come, enter tomorrow and without fail!
3Indeed, beer/ a wage is to hi⸢m⸣ for tomorrow.
4Now, do not fail to come
5tomorrow.
CV
1Greetings, Mîkyah. From Yedanyah. Now,
2indeed, I sent (word) to you (m.s.) yesterday in the name of
3Hôdawyah son of Zekaryah, saying,
4"come to this day." But
5you did not come. In the hand of my daughters, send (word) /to ⸢me⸣\
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
42440 man Hôdawyah son of Zekaryah הודויה בר זכריה Aramaic, Imperial

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
-525 BCE -399 BCE ;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 307717
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 91003
Author James D. Moore
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307717 (= Ostr. London, BM EA 45035), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.