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Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 215

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 215
Publication Number	Mémoires 35 no. 215
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]

Object

Object Type	ostracon
Range of Preservation	complete
Mounting	(unknown)
Comments on Object	Erasure. Mesurements and remarks from publication. Lozachmeur: cv: 10YR5/3 ; cc: 2.5YR5/6 .

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+8+y	x+5+y
Height of Line / Letter

Text Content

Modern Title	Missive. Re Reeds
Text Types	documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	A note to a female addressee with instructions on whom to divide reeds(?) from a (ritual) amulet(?). The Writer promises to give future instructions. The reeds are to be given in confidence, away from the "brothers" of those who are receiving them. The remaining reeds are to be sent to the writer.
Location of Composition	Elephantine / Syene (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	The recipient of the letter is female as indicated by the grammatical forms.
Religion	unknown
Comment on Religion	This appears to be a letter referring to instructionals concerning the separation of reeds from a ritual amulet (tephilin).

Text

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Translation

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concave

1	כענת הנ לא לקחו
2	ת פ נ ילא חלפיה הבי
3	[1] זי מנהמ למשלמ
4	ו 1ל ב ו יתל הלכ טעמ
5	לגמריה בר
6	שלמי

convex

1	ו 1 לאחנו ו 1
2	למלכיה בר נורפרט
3	הוי מנ אחיהמ
4	עלדבר חפליא חלפיא וכזי
5	ינתנונ המו לכי
6	הבי המו במאנ 1
7	והושרי המו לי

concave

1	Now, if (2) the amulet(?) (1) is not taken,
2	(as for) its reeds, give
3	[1] of them to Meshullam
4	[and 1 ]to {B\|W}y{n\|p\|k}tl. Instruc[tion] is coming.
5	[th]en to Gemariah son of
6	compens[ate...] convex
1	and 1 to Ahnu and
2	to Malchiah son of Nuriparet(?)
3	Be apart from their brothers! (i.e. Do not give out the reeds while their brothers are present!)
4	On account of the (remaining) <<reeds>>, when
5	they are given to you,
6	put them into 1 vessel
7	and send them to me.

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Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
22875	(unknown)	Ahnu	אחנו	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

Lemaire, André, Review of H. Lozachmeur, La collection Clermont-Ganneau, 2006 (2007). (182)
Lozachmeur, Hélène, La collection Clermont-Ganneau : ostraca, épigraphes sur jarre étiquettes de bois (2006). (no. 215, pl. 239, pl. 343 (photoshop).)

DatasetID	313099
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 313099 (= Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 215), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.