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Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 140

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Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 140
Publication Number	Mémoires 35 no. 140
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 29 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. Mesurements and remarks from publication. Lozachmeur: cv: 5YR5-6/4 ; cc: 5YR6-5/4.

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 IIa.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+9+y	x+7+y
Height of Line / Letter

Text Content

Modern Title	Missive. Fragmentary.
Text Types	documentary documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	Broken missive concerning a shipment of cucumbers.
Location of Composition	Elephantine / Syene (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown
Religion, further	unknown

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HL (variants)

	[...]⸢לב{ר\|ו}{כ\|ר}ה⸣[ ]⸢קר⸣
	[...]דגלכ כמה
	[...]הושר /למ\זי
	[...]הושר ⸢תחת⸣ קטי⸢נ⸣
	[...]ביד בר [חר]מחי לא
	[...]הושרת אפ לי זלאא⸢לו⸣
	[...]למ לא יהב לי
	[...]⸢זי⸣ שלחת לכ[י] למ
	[...]⸢י⸣ב זי ⸢ל⸣ בעדיה
	[...]◦◦⸢ו פל⸣גיא ז⸢י⸣
	[...]⸢ל⸣ ענחפסעי
	[...] שלחת⸢נ⸣ לי
	[...]◦◦◦ מנהמ
	[...]◦◦◦ ⸢כ⸣ל זי
	[...]⸢{פ\|ב} זי איתי⸣ לכ בנהרא
	[...]י⸢ח⸣ט מנה {ו\|מ}

CC

1	למה ◦ כמה
2	דגלכ שלמ ◦◦◦
3	הושר זי
4	הושר(◦) תחת קטינ
5	ביד ב◦ ()קמחי לא
6	הושרת לי ולא אמרת
7	למ לא יהב לי

CV

1	◦◦◦ שלחת לכ למ
2	הב זי לבעדיה
3	מנ בגיא זי
4	ענחפסעי
5	שלחת לי
6	מנהמ
7	כל זי
8	בידי אנתנ לכ בנהרא
9	יחט מנה

CC

1	Wh⸢y⸣ ... like
2	your (m.s.) dᵉgal-unit? ... Greetings, ◦◦◦.
3	⸢se⸣n⸢d/t⸣ (m.s.) ... which
4	sen⸢t⸣... ⸢und⸣er/instead of cucumber⸢s⸣
5	in the hand of B◦... my ⸢fl⸣our
6	you have (5) not (6) sent to me. And ⸢you did⸣ not s[a]⸢y⸣
7	saying, he gave me not.

CV

1	◦◦◦ I sent you (word), saying,
2	[gi]ve that which belongs to Baˁadyah
3	⸢from⸣ the ⸢f⸣iefs which ...
4	... ˁnḫ-pꜢ-šꜢj
5	... you sent (word) to me
6	... from them
7	[...]... all which
8	in my possession I shall give to you (m.s.). On the river
9	he shall ins⸢pe⸣ct a portion.

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People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
39710	man	Baˁadyah	בעדיה	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. 140, pl. 183.)

DatasetID	313024
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 313024 (= Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 140), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore, Emil Joubert (metadata) .