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Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 265

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Collection

Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 265
Publication Number	Mémoires 35 no. 265
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: 5YR5-6/4 ; cc: 5YR6/4-6.

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

Text Content

Modern Title	Fragmentary Missive. Re: Find the Documents; Take and Oath
Text Types	documentary documentary \| letter
Summary of Content	Letter with address missing. Concerns a possible trial in which documentary evidence is needed and in lieu of evidence one should take an oath.
Location of Composition	Elephantine / Syene (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

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	HL's edition CC:
	1. [...]◦◦◦◦ חצצא
	2. [...]ל{כ\|מ} חי{א\|צ} בתבא זי
	3. בה ח{ד\|ל}פכ מלאנ
	4. לא בתבי ספריא
	5. להנ באחר{י\|ה}תא [...]
	6. כענ ארה לא [...]
	7. שלחתמ לי [...]
	8. שלמ
	CV
	1. מלכיה כזי [...]
	2. בחת מ ו כרשא
	3. כענ שאל שלמה
	4. והנ לא הומא מעזיה
	5. [...] לתתאי יומאהי
	6. [...] מלכיה הושר
	7. [...]פכלולא
	8. [...]לעבק

CC

1	כענ חצצא
2	◦◦◦◦ בתבא זי
3	בה חמרכ מלאנ
4	לא בתבי ספריא
5	להנ באחריתא
6	כענ ארה לא
7	שלחתמ לי
8	שלמ

CV

1	מלכיה כזי ◦◦◦
2	◦◦חת מנ כרשא
3	כענ שאל שלמה
4	והנ לא הומא מעזיה
5	◦ לתתאי יומאהי ¹Perhaps read מומא “the oath.”
6	מלכיה הושר
7	פכלולא ²Also found in CG no. 16
8	לעבק

¹ Perhaps read מומא “the oath.”
² Also found in CG no. 16

CC

1	[Now,] as for the reed bundle
2	◦◦◦◦ in the box which
3	in it your wine/donkey we filled.
4	The documents are not in my box,
5	but with the next ones/in the future [...]
6	Now, indeed [...]
7	you did (6) not (7) send (word of) them to me. [...]
8	Greet/compensate

CV

1	Malkiyah when ◦◦◦
2	◦◦ḤT from/more than [the] karsh
3	Now, inquire about his compensation/welfare.
4	And if Maˁûzyah did not swear
5	[...]◦ for/to Tatˀay, he must swear it
6	[...] Malkiyah send/he sent
7	[...]the Pklwl
8	[...]quickly!

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People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
41510	man	Malkiyah	מלכיה	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

Gzella, Holger, Review of Lozachmeur (2013). (473)
Lozachmeur, Hélène, La collection Clermont-Ganneau : ostraca, épigraphes sur jarre étiquettes de bois (2006). (no. 265, pl. 271.)

DatasetID	313149
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 313149 (= Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. 265), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore, Emil Joubert (metadata).