“Localizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,” n.d. TBA.
CG no. 144
Metadata
- Collection
- Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, France | AIBL (Public)
- Keyword
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- missive (cv only)
- Language
- Aramaic
- Script
- Aramaic
- Find Type
- Excavation/Acquisition
- Locus
- Check notes in Lozachmeur/FM DB for each piece. Some items were acquired at the site. Others found. The X and Y collections are very problematic with regard to provenance.
- Acquired
- Clermont-Ganneau [1906–1911]
- Material
- clay | sherd (for ostracon)
- Text Direction Side 1
- parallel (∥) to the material's lines
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-06-28
Lozachmeur, Hélène. La collection Clermont-Ganneau: ostraca, épigraphes sur jarre étiquettes de bois. 2 vols. Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 35. Paris: de Boccard, 2006.
Textual Notes
Note that this is writen cv only, is a formal letter, but uses על instead of אל. These features point to a writer who was not trained like the others and who may have come from the east.
Text and Translation
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James Moore Last updated 07 April, 2026 by James D. Moore
James Moore Last updated 07 April, 2026 by James D. Moore
Fr⸢om⸣ Yešaˁya⸢h⸣ to
Mi⸢k⸣ayah. No⸢w⸣ send
me ⸢a son of⸣ Za⸢kk⸣ûr
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 144.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10325. Accessed: 30 Jun, 2026.