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Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 235

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 235
Publication Number Mémoires 35 no. 235
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 Palimpsest, very strained. Mesurements and remarks from publication. Lozachmeur: cv: 5YR7/3-4 ; cc: 2.5YR6/4-6, white strain in the middle.

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 Ia.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+8+y x+7+y
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Missive. Fragmentary
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Content unclear due to fragmentary condition. Mention of a pickaxe, an Egyptian memo (?), and "lying in wait" in Syene.
Multilingualism Monolingual
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
variants
HL's edition CC:
1. [...] עלי תלי
2. [...{נ|כ}י]ה {ו|ב|מ}◦נא
3. [...נ]תנ {ל|ו}גנג
4. [...]אסחנמ
5. [...]י לתת{א|ע}ה
6. [...]ו יעב{א|ע|ד}הי
7. [...]לה
CV
1. למ המט{א|י}◦[...]
2. עד יעדרו[...]
3. [...י]בל עמ ביל[...]
4. כענ כזי י[...]
5. בסונ אזלי[...]
6. ויכרע ול[...]
7. וקח פרס[...]
8. אל ידע ו[...]
CC
1 עלי תלי
2◦ה מאנא 1מאנא: following Lemaire and Dupont-Sommer.
3נתנ נגנג 2נגנג: following Lemaire and Dupont-Sommer. As the meaning, tentively reading from Egy. mkmk “memo”.
4אסחנמ
5◦י לתתא
6ויעבדהי
7לה

1 מאנא: following Lemaire and Dupont-Sommer.
2 נגנג: following Lemaire and Dupont-Sommer. As the meaning, tentively reading from Egy. mkmk “memo”.
CV
1למ המטאהי
2עד יעדרו
3יבל עמ ביל
4כענ כזי י
5בסונ אזלי
6ויכרע וע
7וקח פרס
8אל ידעו 1Perhaps the final line reads ידע טעמ “knower of (the) decree”?

1 Perhaps the final line reads ידע טעמ “knower of (the) decree”?
CC
1[...] to me a pick(axe)
2[...]◦H the vessel
3[... shall g]ive a memo (?)
4[...]ˀEsḥnum
5[...]◦Y to Tataˀ
6[...]and he shall make it (f.s.)
7[...]LH
CV
1saying, he made i[t] (f.s) reach
2until they shall they help[...]
3[...shall ]bring with Byl[...]
4Now, when Y[...]
5in Syene go (f.s.)[...]
6and he shall lie in wait and ⸢ˁ⸣[...]
7so take (m.s.) a ration[...]
8Know (c.pl.) not![...]
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Places (read out from edition)
  • סונ (places.xml#s8)
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    People mentioned in Text

    ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
    37130 (unknown) Byl... ביל... 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

     

    DatasetID 313119
    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 313119 (= Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 235), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.