Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 128

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 128
Publication Number	Mémoires 35 no. 128
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 16 12 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: 5YR7/3-4 ; cc: 2.5YR6/6.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	concave/convex (inside/outside)
Text-Localization, Addendum	cc oblique.
Script, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Handwriting	Lozachmeur hand Ia.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+6+y	x+7+y
Height of Line / Letter

Text Content

Modern Title	Missive. Re Not Loosing Fish and Sending Supplies
Text Types	documentary documentary \| letter

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	◦◦◦◦ת לי
2	לי נונ ל
3	למ הושר
4	לא/אל תאבדו נונ
5	כענ איתי ת◦
6	פכלול 𐡘
7	מלא

1	ופדיה וט
2	מלח ואושר
3	שלחת לכמ ל
4	◦ה לאביתמ לא אביתמ
5	◦ה מלח מ
6	◦◦◦

1	[...]◦◦◦◦⸢T to me⸣[...]
2	[...] to me fish L[...]
3	[...] saying, sen[d ...]
4	you shall [not] loose fish[...]
5	Now, there is not T◦[...]
6	1 pklwl
7	is full/fill

1	and Pa⸢d⸢ya⸢h⸣ and Ṭ[...]
2	salt. And I shall send[...]
3	I sent (word) to you (m.p.) L[...]
4	[...]◦H you did not want [...] ¹The lettars are clear, but the meaning is not. HL's translation "à lui pour mon père là?" is neither orthographical nor grammatically acceptible. One may interpret this as an unknown name of Hebrew origin ˀAbîtam meaning "my father is perfect" or as a negatated verbal form with a deleted א due to haplography, לא אביתמ "you did not want." The latter is preferred since the addressee is already referred to in the m.p. in the previousl line.
5	[...]◦H salt M[...]
6	[...]◦◦◦[...]

¹ The lettars are clear, but the meaning is not. HL's translation "à lui pour mon père là?" is neither orthographical nor grammatically acceptible. One may interpret this as an unknown name of Hebrew origin ˀAbîtam meaning "my father is perfect" or as a negatated verbal form with a deleted א due to haplography, לא אביתמ "you did not want." The latter is preferred since the addressee is already referred to in the m.p. in the previousl line.

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People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
37385	man	Padyah	פדיה	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. 128, pl. 173.)

DatasetID	313012
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 313012 (= Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 128), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore, Emil Joubert (metadata) .