Home Project Search Objects Places Persons & Deities  
 

Search in Objects


(submit with enter)

 

Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 236

TEI-XML-File: https://p612399.webspaceconfig.de/xml/elephantine_erc_db_313120.tei.xml

Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 236
Publication Number Mémoires 35 no. 236
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: 5YR6/4 ; cc: 5YR6/4, strain to the bottom.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object concave/convex (inside/outside)
Text-Localization, Addendum cc parallel.
Script, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Handwriting Lozachmeur hand Ic.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+4 x+5+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 Yaho and the river.

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
variants
HL's edition CC:
1. [...]ל{ו|פ}נ [...]
2. [...]הנ {ה|ח}
3. [...]ידע ואפ [...]
4. [...]או לא ל◦[...]
5. [...]ו בנת [...]
6. [...]כ{י|א}
CV
1. [...]צב {◦|𐡛}[...]
2. [...]{𐡜𐡘|צח} ות{פ|כ}ת[{ח|ב}...]
3. [...]ל תחת נהר [...]
4. [...] הא {ל|י}הה [...]
CC
1לפמ
2◦ הנ ח
3ידיע ואפ
4או ל א י ל א ת
5זבנת
6כי
CV
1צבי
2𐡜𐡘 צח ותנתנ
3◦ל תחת נהר
4הא ליהה
CC
1[...]to PM⸣[...]
2[...]◦ if [...]
3is kno⸢wn⸣. And moreover, [...]
4or to me/not no⸢t⸣/LT[...]
5I/you (m.s.)/she bought/sold [...]
6KY[...]
CV
1[...] desired[...]
2[...]21 (to) Ṣeḥi/a and you/she shall gi⸢ve⸣ 1HL “polis” follows AD-S’s suggestion. Alt. read from √צלח “chopped” with elision of ל, as in root סלק.
3[...]◦L under (the) river
4[...] ⸢to Yahô⸣

1 HL “polis” follows AD-S’s suggestion. Alt. read from √צלח “chopped” with elision of ל, as in root סלק.
Paris_AIBL_CIS_CG-236_
CC-BY-NC-SA
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
37135 (unknown) Ṣeḥi/a צח Aramaic, Imperial

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

Paris_AIBL_CIS_CG-236_
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 313120
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 313120 (= Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 236), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.