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Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. X17

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. X17
Publication Number Mémoires 35 no. X17
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 and erasure. Mesurements and remarks from publication. Lozachmeur: cv: 5YR6/4 and 10YR7/3 ; cc: 2.5YR5-6/8.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Text-Localization, Addendum cv perpendicular.
Script, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Handwriting Lozachmeur hand Ic.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+3+y

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragmentary Missive.
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content Context broken, but mention of a boat is similar to the Elephantine ostraca missives.
Location of Composition Elephantine / Syene (Certainty: low)
Multilingualism Monolingual
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
variants
HL's edition CC:
1. [...] ⸣אר⸢יהו בר [...]
1. [...] או יהור⸣מ⸢[...]
2. [...]אלפא הנ
3. [...] ⸣ש⸢לחי לה◦◦[...]
3. [...] ⸣ב⸣אלפא ⸣בה⸢ {מ|נ}◦[...]
CV
1אפ יהוונ[...]
2אלפא הנ[ ...]
3אזלנ לה מ◦[...]
CV
1More⸢over,⸣ they shall be
2the boat. If [...]
3they are going to him/her/it M◦[...]
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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 313181
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 313181 (= Ostr. Paris, AIBL Clermont-Ganneau no. X17), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.