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Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 43464 b

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Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 43464 b
Publication Number	TAD D.7.8
Current Location	Cairo, Egyptian Museum (transferred to the museum in 1912)
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]
Type of Discovery	excavation or purchase Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors) Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Range of Preservation	(undecidable)
Mounting	(unknown)

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	concave/convex (inside/outside)
Script, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial

Text Content

Modern Title	Missive to Uriah and ˀAḥuṭab. Re: Care of a sheep and food supply update
Text Types	documentary documentary \| letter
Location of Composition	Elephantine / Syene (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual
Religion	unknown

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1	שלמ אוריה כענ
2	הלו תאתא זי לך
3	רבתא מטאת למגז
4	עמרא זילה קדמא
5	מתמרט בכבא כענ
6	אתה וגזה ביומ
7	זי תרחענה
8	תגזנה

CV

1	והנ לא תנפק
2	יומא זנה שלח
3	לי וארחעה עד
4	תנפק שלמ אחטב
5	כענ על לחמא זנה
6	נאכל עד מחר
7	ערובה א קמח
8	שאר תנה

CC

1	Peace, Uriah. Now
2	Indeed the ewe that belongs to you
3	has grown and reached (the time) to (be) shear(ed).
4	Its old wool
5	is being ripped off by thorn(s). Now
6	come and shear it. On (the) day
7	which you wash it,
8	you should shear it.

CV

1	And if you do not leave
2	this day, send (word)
3	to me, and I will wash it until
4	you leave. Peace, ˀAḥuṭab.
5	Now concerning this food (supply),
6	we shall eat until tomorrow.
7	Its grain (level) is an a(rdab). Flour
8	remains there.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
42010	man	Uriah	אוריה	Aramaic, Imperial

Dates

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

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Literature

Moore, James D., New Aramaic Papyri in Berlin. (pp. 36, 48)
Porten, Bezalel & Yardeni, Ada, Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt, 4: Ostraca & assorted inscriptions. (D7.8)

DatasetID	308106
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	90991
Author	James D. Moore
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308106 (= Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 43464 b), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.