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Ostr. Paris, AIBL CIS, Clermont-Ganneau no. 21

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, AIBL CIS, Clermont-Ganneau no. 21
Publication Number Mémoires 35 no. 021
Current Location Paris, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty:
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty:
Date of Discovery
Term. Ante / Post Quem Non
between 11 3 1907 and
Finder (= First Purchaser) Clermont-Ganneau, Charles
Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Range of Preservation complete
Mounting (unknown)
Comments on Object Palimpsest or erasure. Mesurements and remarks from publication. Lozachmeur: cv: 7.5YR5-6/2 ; cc: 2.5YR5/6.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object concave/convex (inside/outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
Script, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Handwriting Lozachmeur hand Ia.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4 5
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Ancient Title Missive. Re Gift or Temple Servant and Assassins
Modern Title Inscription on Sherd
Text Types
  • documentary | letter
  • documentary | order to arrest
Summary of Content Perhaps a letter. Mentions assassins.
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man
Comment on Gender Male assassins.
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
concave
1 ולאחטב 𐡘𐡘
2ת לחנתא
3נ אמכמ
4◦ קטלנ לי
convex
1זי קטלנ ל כ י
2ומ לע
3כענ
4
5
concave
1[...] and to ˀAḥutab {2|who}
2[...]◦◦T the female temple servant
2 alt[...]◦◦T as the gift
3[...]...N◦ your (pl.) mother
4[...]◦ those who kill for me
convex
1 of those who kill me [...]
2W ...M ◦◦ [...]
3... Now, ◦◦◦[...]
4...[...]
5...[...]

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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
36535 woman ˀAḥuṭab אחטב 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 312905
last Change 29.07.2022
Author James D. Moore (collated from picture and reedited), Emil Joubert (metadata)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 312905 (= Ostr. Paris, AIBL CIS, Clermont-Ganneau no. 21), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore (collated from picture and reedited), Emil Joubert (metadata) .