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Inventory Number | Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 203 |
Publication Number | Mémoires 35 no. 203 |
Current Location | Paris, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres |
Publication Permission Status | no permission for publication necessary |
Publication Status | published |
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] |
Object Type | ostracon |
Range of Preservation | complete |
Mounting | (unknown) |
Comments on Object | The ostracon appears to have an illegible palimpsest. The sherd may have been larger for the palimpsest composition (Moore). Mesurements and remarks from publication. Lozachmeur: cv: 10YR6/3-4 ; cc: 2.5YR5/4-6. |
Localization of Text on Object | concave/convex (inside/outside) | |
Text-Localization, Addendum | cc parallel. | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | complete | |
Script, Primary | Aramaic, Imperial | |
Language, Primary | Aramaic, Imperial | |
Comments on Handwriting | See comments on object. Lozachmeur hand Ib. The writer appears to have doubley written over many characters on CC. CV appears to have been written with a different stylus and contains a correction CV ln. 2 and a possible errasure CV ln. 3. |
Modern Title | Missive. Fragmentary. Re Regional Business and an Important Woman. |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Letter to one Nathan. Mentions one Espemet, who may be boatman on Elephantine, and a positively portrayed woman. |
Location of Composition | Elephantine / Syene (Certainty: high) |
Gender | Woman Man |
Comment on Gender | The letter mentions a woman who is called "agreeable". The meaning is uncertain, it is likely a pael participle or passive participle. It can mean informed/knowledgeable or renown. Nonetheless, the unknown woman is either socially or intellectually valued. Also, mentions the addressee's (Nathan's) mother. This may be the same woman. |
Religion | unknown |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 Different stylus than CC. 2 A dot sits above the line. 3 The letters may belong to the palimpsest, הנ נתנ 4 The words ברתכ and יומ appear to be part of the palimpsest. |
1 Lozachmeur: enviée |
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
19925 | man | Espemet bar | אספמת בר | Aramaic, Imperial |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
-525 BCE -399 BCE | ; |
DatasetID | 313087 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Author | James D. Moore |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 313087 (= Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 203), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore. |