Ostr. Paris, AIBL CIS, Clermont-Ganneau no. 61

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, AIBL CIS, Clermont-Ganneau no. 61
Publication Number	Mémoires 35 no. 061
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:
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]
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1907 and 1911

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Rotation	around vertical axis (side to side)
Range of Preservation	complete
Mounting	(unknown)
Comments on Object	Mesurements and remarks from publication. Lozachmeur: cv: 10YR7/3 ; cc: 5YR5/4.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	concave/convex (inside/outside)
Text-Localization, Addendum	cc parallel.
Script, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Handwriting	Lozachmeur hand Ia.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x + 5 + y	x + 4 + y
Height of Line / Letter

Text Content

Modern Title	Missive. Fragmentary.
Text Types	documentary documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	Reference to commodities and supplies.
Location of Composition	Elephantine / Syene (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual
Gender	Man

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	כספ כ 𐡘 על זי
2	והנ לא ינתנ
3	◦ עבדו
4	◦ למ
5	ל

1	כל 𐡘𐡘𐡘 𐡘𐡘𐡘 𐡘𐡘 ו◦
2	לבש 𐡘 וו טחנתא ¹For חטנ meaning "wheat" see EM 43497 and Pl. 13461B- P. 13448-13 + B/AM x 428, 17 + B/AM x 420, 16 (+) Pl. 13445E- P. 13448-8. Here "hook of the miller" is interpreted as "sickle." HL's translation suggests וו is an error for ו.
3	אפ בעי לחר ²HL: כענ for בעי.
4	ירחה ו ³HL = משחה
5	משח
6	◦◦

¹ For חטנ meaning "wheat" see EM 43497 and Pl. 13461B- P. 13448-13 + B/AM x 428, 17 + B/AM x 420, 16 (+) Pl. 13445E- P. 13448-8. Here "hook of the miller" is interpreted as "sickle." HL's translation suggests וו is an error for ו.
² HL: כענ for בעי.
³ HL = משחה

1	[...] silver, 1 k(arš). On account of which
2	[... ]And if he shall not give
3	[...]◦ they made
4	[...]◦ saying
5	[...]⸢L⸣

1	a total of 8. And ◦[...]
2	1 garment, a sickle[ ...]
3	Moreover, seek for Ḥor[...]
4	His/her/its month and[...]
5	oil [...]
6	◦◦[...]

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
39130	man	Ḥor...	חר...	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. 61, pl. 133.)

DatasetID	312945
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 312945 (= Ostr. Paris, AIBL CIS, Clermont-Ganneau no. 61), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore, Emil Joubert (metadata) .