Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4456

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4456
Publication Number	Röllig, DAIK 36, no. 38
Current Location	Elephantine, excavation magazine DAI

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine / Syene () [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details	Fund-Nr. 38800
Ancient Provenance District	Lower Egypt, 1st nome (Memphites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Lower Egypt, 1st nome (Memphites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	excavation finds

Object Type	Jar
Range of Preservation	complete

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Script, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary	Aramaic, Imperial
Comments on Handwriting	Standard 5th century hand.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5

Modern Title	Inscription on Sherd
Text Types	documentary Documentary \| Jar Label documentary \| list \| name list
Summary of Content	Röllig believes that this is an ostracon. I read it as a jar label, a list of names.
Comments on Text	Line 3: Röllig admits that the name is difficult. He prefers the gentilic כנני because the name ends in בל, i.e. Baˁal. The first letter and last letter of the gentilic are clear. Second letter is almost certainly not a נ because it has an articulated head made of at least two strokes and one penlift. ס is the most likely option. The third letter of the gentilic looks like a standard פ, to me. The first three letters of the name are difficult. The first letter could be ה, ג, or פ. Röllig appears to have mistaking the vertical stroke of the second letter as a ל; it is an א. The third letter appears to be a י or ז. It is unlikely that it should be read with the following stroke and construed as a צ because of the spacing. Röllig’s ינ seems plausible and is followed here. Line 4: I cannot confirm Röllig’s reading.
Gender	Man

Transcription

Translation

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convex

1	נתנ בר
2	עזרי בר ה
3	פאינבל כספי¹Röllig reads פלינבל כנני. See Comments on Text
4	²Röllig reads ◦◦בל◦◦
5	ה מ ◦◦ ³Röllig reads [...]ה⸣רנ⸢

¹ Röllig reads פלינבל כנני. See Comments on Text
² Röllig reads ◦◦בל◦◦
³ Röllig reads [...]ה⸣רנ⸢

convex

DAI_Aram_O4456_37800_S

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
28925	man	Azari(ah) son of H◦...	עזרי בר ה...	Aramaic, Imperial

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
27th dynasty					;

DAI_Aram_O4456_37800_S

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DatasetID	315563
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 315563 (= Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4456), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore.