CG no. 255
Metadata
- Collection
- Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, France | AIBL (Public)
- Genre
-
- Missive
- 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]
- Created by
- James D. Moore
- Material
- clay | sherd (for ostracon)
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-01-18
- References
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- Lepper, Verena M. et al. . 313139.
- Lozachmeur, Hélène 2006. 255.
“Localizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,” n.d. TBA.
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
FM 313139
cv 4: <note>Reading as an unmarked interogative, Vb Subj.</note>
cv 6: <note>Reading as a pronoun rather than interogative particle.</note>
This document is rotated strangely. Top-to-bottom then rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
פחי: reading half is strange since פלג is “half” in the other documents.
Text and Translation
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James Moore
James Moore
Greetings, Yedanyah. Now, ◦[...]
they shall write to Natan with a servant[ ...]
A salary, Indeed, I shall not give him.[ ...]
ˀAḥûṭab a meal-ration of honey,[ ...]
a wife {D[...] |R[...]}
Now they brought to ⸢S⸣[...]
ˀEspemet son of Tabaˀ ⸢wh⸣[o ...]
Leave them and I shall buy/sell to ◦[...]
Are you all [con]spiring? Send (word)/they sent (word)[ ...]
with Malkyah, “you shall[ ...”]
And look, what is in the heart[ ...]
they shall help ⸢H⸣ûma⸢ya⸣[ ...]/⸢th⸣em( )Y[...]
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 255.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10328. Accessed: 21 Jan, 2026.