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Persons & Deities

Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 43464 d

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 43464 d
Publication Number	TAD D.7.12
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	archaeological excavation 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	(non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	concave/convex (inside/outside)
Script, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5	6
Height of Line / Letter

Text Content

Modern Title	Fragmentary Missive. Re: Barley and Shabbat
Text Types	documentary documentary \| letter
Location of Composition	Elephantine / Syene (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual
Gender	Man Woman
Religion	unknown

Text

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Translation

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CC

1
2	אנתתא זי ג
3	וקפת ידניה
4	מלאה סערנ ¹סער[נ...]: Alt 1. rd. √סעד “help” or as a name and rd. מלאה as fem. “Sˁr[...] filled”
5	וקפיר
6

¹ סער[נ...]: Alt 1. rd. √סעד “help” or as a name and rd. מלאה as fem. “Sˁr[...] filled”

CV

1
2	נ ואבשל
3	שבה אתה
4	אעבד מנ
5	תחזו

CC

1	[...]◦◦[...]
2	the [w]⸢if⸣e of G[...]
3	and the basket of Yedanyah[ ...]
4	fill it (with) barle[y ...]
5	and a pot
6	[...]◦◦[...]

CV

1	[...]...[...]
2	[...]N and I shall cook
3	[...]Sabbath. Com\e/
4	[...]And I will make from
5	[...] you/she will see

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
42025	man	Yedanyah	ידניה	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

Porten, Bezalel & Yardeni, Ada, Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt, 4: Ostraca & assorted inscriptions. (D7.12)

DatasetID	308108
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	90995
Author	James D. Moore
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 308108 (= Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 43464 d), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.