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Ostr. Paris, AIBL CIS, Clermont-Ganneau no. 57

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, AIBL CIS, Clermont-Ganneau no. 57
Publication Number	Mémoires 35 no. 057 + 099 = J03
Current Location	Paris, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Publication Permission Status	no permission for publication necessary
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 18 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 and erasure. Mesurements and remarks from publication. Lozachmeur: cv: 10YR6-7/2 and tache 5YR7/6 ; cc: 5YR6-7/6.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	concave/convex (inside/outside)
Text-Localization, Addendum	cc perpendicular.
Script, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Handwriting	Lozachmeur hand Ic.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x + 4 + y	x + 6 + y
Height of Line / Letter

Text Content

Modern Title	Missive to Natan.
Text Types	documentary \| letter
Location of Composition	Elephantine / Syene (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual
Religion	unknown

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HL (variants)

	[שלמ ]⸢נ⸣תנ כענ הושר[ת {לי \|לכ}]
	[...]רה זי עקנ אתמ[ל ...]
	[... שי]מת אתמל ???? אפ
	[... ]זנה {????[\|ז[כ}◦]ל ???????????? בהמ
	[... א]פ מחר
	[...]◦◦◦[...]
	כענ[ ...]
	בעדיא ושמ[...]
	זי אסירו בעד[ה ...]
	כפמ כענ {א\|י}הכ ב[...]
	{ב\|מ}למרא הלו לא[ ...]
	אשכח עקנ כע[נ ...]
	משכיא ועב[דו ...]

CC

1	שלמ נתנ כענ הושר לי
2	[מאס]רה זי עקנ אתמ[ל]
3	מת אתמל ???? אפ
4	זנה ???? כל ???????????? בהמ
5	וכספ מחר
6	◦◦◦

CV

1	◦◦◦[◦] כספ
2	בעריא ושמ
3	זי אסירו בעל
4	אפמ כענ אזהרו את
5	מל עריא הלו לא
6	אשכח עקנ כענ [(...)]
7	משכיא ועבור

CC

1	[Greetings. Na]than. Now, send [me]
2	a [bund]le of wood. Yester[day],
3	[◦◦◦◦◦]MT I/you/she. Yesterday (there was) 1. Moreover
4	[◦◦◦◦◦ ] this 1, a ⸢to⸣tal of 3 among them.
5	[...] ⸢and silv⸣er, tomorrow
6	[...]◦◦◦[...]

CV

1	◦◦◦[◦] ⸢silver⸣ [...]
2	in the ˁry-pots/among the cold ones. And set [...]
3	that which is bound (by) Baˁal/a master [...]
4	Nonetheless, now, beware (pl.) [to-]
5	morrow of the ˁry-pots/the cold ones. Indeed,
6	I shall (5) not (6) find wood. No[w, (...)]
7	the skins and grai[n ...]

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People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
40820	man	Baal	בעל	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

Lozachmeur, Hélène, La collection Clermont-Ganneau : ostraca, épigraphes sur jarre étiquettes de bois (2006). (no. 57, pl. 131; no. J3)

DatasetID	312941
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	James D. Moore, Emil Joubert (metadata)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 312941 (= Ostr. Paris, AIBL CIS, Clermont-Ganneau no. 57), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore, Emil Joubert (metadata) .