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Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 195

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 195
Publication Number Mémoires 35 no. 195
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 3 1908 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: 5YR5/3 ; cc: 5YR5/3 darkened.

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 Ib.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+1 x+5+y
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Missive. Fragmentary. Re Flour
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Context is unclear.
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual
Religion unknown
Religion, further unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
HL (variants)
cc. 01. ‮[...]יהוי שט [...]
cc. 02. ‮[...]קמחא משצבר[...]
cc. 03. ‮[...]זי אנתנ לנג{ר|ד}א[...]
cc. 04. ‮[...]עד אשלח לכמ[...]
cc. 05. ‮[...◦]ותהושרונה[...]
cv. 01. ‮לי לעבק
cc pal. 01. ‮--
cc pal. 02. ‮--
cc pal. 03. ‮--
cc pal. 04. ‮--
CC
1יהוי שט1HL = “battu” < √שטי. But compare √שטט used to describe the feature of a tunic in EM 43477 ln. 8.
2קמחא משצבר2HL translates “la farine, ayant été collecté(e)”, deriving the word from √צבר. Presumably she reads this as a šaˁfel participle. The √צבר is not attested in the C-stem in NWS, and the Š-stem is a sign of possible borrowing from Akk. To translate with a passive meaning seems unlikely. Instead read from Akk. Š-stem < ṣabāru “to spin” and in the context of flour presumably a miller, who spins the round millstones.
3זי אנתנ לנגרא לנגדא
4עד אשלח לכמ
5ותהושרונהי

1 HL = “battu” < √שטי. But compare √שטט used to describe the feature of a tunic in EM 43477 ln. 8.
2 HL translates “la farine, ayant été collecté(e)”, deriving the word from √צבר. Presumably she reads this as a šaˁfel participle. The √צבר is not attested in the C-stem in NWS, and the Š-stem is a sign of possible borrowing from Akk. To translate with a passive meaning seems unlikely. Instead read from Akk. Š-stem < ṣabāru “to spin” and in the context of flour presumably a miller, who spins the round millstones.
CV
1לי לעבק
CC palimpsest
1...◦ ...◦ ◦ט ◦ע
2כא ◦...
3...
4הלו ◦מ◦◦◦
CC
1[... ]it/he shall be ŠṬ
2[... (as for)]the flour, a miller/spinner
3[... ]which I shall give to the official/carpenter
4[... ]until I send (word) to you (m.p.)
5[... ]and you shall send it
CV
1to me quickly.
CC palimpsest
1[...]...◦ ...◦ ◦{Ṭ|ˁ}
2[...]◦⸢K⸣ ◦...
3[...]...
4[... ]Indeed, ◦M◦◦◦
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Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
-525 BCE -399 BCE ;

 

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Literature

 

DatasetID 313079
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 313079 (= Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 195), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore, Emil Joubert (metadata) .