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Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 263

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 263
Publication Number Mémoires 35 no. 263
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: 5YR6/4-6 ; cc: 5YR5-6/4.

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+2 x+5+y
Height of Line / Letter

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragmentary Missive. Re: Barley
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
variants
HL's edition CC:
1. כענת חזי שערי
2. א הושר מנ 𐡛
3. ל{ב|ק}◦◦◦ הושר[ת...]
4. לכ הב ◦◦◦
5. ◦כ
CV
1. אתמל ביד הדי
2. ה
CC
1כענת חזי שערי
2א הושר מנ 𐡛 1The reading follows HL, but between the proposed מ and נ is a clear short horizontal stroke which makes the first letter look more like ה than מ.
3ליל(◦) הושרת
4לכ הב נ
5◦◦

1 The reading follows HL, but between the proposed מ and נ is a clear short horizontal stroke which makes the first letter look more like ה than מ.
CV
1אתמל ביד הדי
2ה
CC
1Now, look (for/at) (2) the (1) barley.
2Send (from/more than) 10
3to ⸢me⸣ all/indeed I sent 1Read either הלו or כל.
4to you. Gi⸢ve N⸣[...]
5◦◦

1 Read either הלו or כל.
CV
1–2tomorrow in the the hand of Hodyah.
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
41640 man Hodyah הדיה Aramaic, Imperial

 

Dates

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

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 313147
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 313147 (= Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 263), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore, Emil Joubert (metadata).