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Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Aram. Inscr. 2

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Aram. Inscr. 2
Publication Number TAD D.7.3
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]
Finder (= First Purchaser) Sayce, Archibald Henry
Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Range of Preservation complete
Mounting (unknown)

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object concave (inside)
Script, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 9
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Missive to ˀAḥûṭab Re Cucumbers and Gourd Seed
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual
Gender Woman
Comment on Gender Missive concerning cucumbers as discussed by women.
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
variants
TAD:
[ש]למ אחוטב ⸢ו⸣כענת למ[...]
[ה]⸢נ⸣ לא איתי זרע קטי⸢נ⸣[...]
[כ]זי אמרת לכי אנתתא {ש|ע}[...]
[אז]לי יומא זנה ועל[י על]
[מש]ל⸢כ⸣ בר {אתרלי | אתמא | את◦◦} ◦◦◦◦[...]
[...]זרע דלענ אפ הנ[...]
[...]איתי לי ◦◦[...]
[...]למחר ◦◦◦[...]
[...]◦◦ יומא[...]
CC
1שלמ אחוטב וכענת למ
2הנ לא איתי זרע קטינ
3כזי אמרת לכי אנתתא ל◦(◦)
4אזלי יומא זנה ואל אזלי 1The א in ואל is certain.
5ל◦א בר את
6זרע דלענ אפ הנ
7איתי לי
8למחר
9 יומא

1 The א in ואל is certain.
CC
1[Gr]eetings, ˀAḥûṭab. ⸢And⸣ now, quote:
2[I]⸢f⸣ “there is no cucumb⸢er⸣ seed”
3[a]s the woman said to you (f.s.), (then) to [◦(◦)]
4go today, but do ⸢no⸣t [go]
5[to (◦)]◦ˀ son of ˀt◦◦. ◦◦◦◦ 1Perhaps here, “and buy” וזבני or "to buy" לזבנת/ה.
6gourd seed. Moreover, if
7I have ◦◦[...]
8for tomorrow ◦◦◦[...]
9[...]◦◦ today[...]

1 Perhaps here, “and buy” וזבני or "to buy" לזבנת/ה.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
41985 woman ˀAḥûṭab אחוטב 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 307812
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 90986
Author James D. Moore
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307812 (= Ostr. Oxford Bodl. Aram. Inscr. 2), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.