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London, BM E 14219

TAD D.07.13

Metadata

Collection
British Museum | BM (Public)
Genre
  • Missive
Language
Aramaic
Script
Aramaic
Find Type
Acquisition
Acquired
Reverend Greville John Chester [varia]
Created by
James D. Moore
Material
clay | sherd (for ostracon)
Palimpsest?
true
Text Direction Side 1
parallel (∥) to the material's lines
Text Direction Side 2
parallel (∥) to the material's lines
Updated by
James D. Moore, 2026-01-18
Date (Metadata)
Gregorian -525 to -399 [Persian, 5th cent. BCE]
References
  • Académie des inscriptions & belles -lettres (France ) Commission du Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum, Jean-Baptiste Chabot and University of Michigan 1900. RÉS 495.
  • Académie des inscriptions & belles -lettres (France ) Commission du Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum, Jean-Baptiste Chabot and University of Michigan 1900. CIS II/I 138.
  • Lepper, Verena M. et al. . erc 307757.
  • Porten, Bezalel and Yardeni, Ada 1986. D.07.13.
General Notes
BM catalog states acquired from Chester in 1875

Académie des inscriptions & belles -lettres (France ) Commission du Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum, Jean-Baptiste Chabot. Répertoire d’épigraphie sémitique. Vol. 8. Imprimerie nationale, 1900. http://archive.org/details/rpertoiredpigra00gangoog.
“Localizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,” n.d. TBA.
Porten, Bezalel, and Ada Yardeni. Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt. 4 vols. Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1986.

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James Moore Last updated 06 August, 2025 by James D. Moore

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James Moore Last updated 06 August, 2025 by James D. Moore

([...]) and to ˀEsmin son of [...]
in the boat of Menḥnum who HS[...]
and Yedanyah the beams M[...]
and inquire/interrogate Peṭosirî [...]
Šaḥapemoû (ṮꜢj-ḥp-jm=w) in the boat of Š◦[...]
and inquire/interrogate Ḥn◦[...]
Peṭeḥarpeḥrat (PꜢ-dj-Ḥr-pꜢ-ẖrd)
son of Pamûn ◦[...]
son of Sn[...]
L[...]
Ṣeḥaˀ son of Ḥikertays ◦([...])
[... they] shall give. And if they said,
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[...]◦N to you (m.s.) concerning Peˀûḥrib (PꜢj=w-ḥrj-ỉb). Say (m.s.)
[... ]I/you/she [ga]ve them to him/her SR/DNW
[...] he did not give to us
[...] Malkyah. Syene
[... Pe]ṭeneter (PꜢ-dj-(nꜢ-)nṯr.w) son of
[...] in the boat of
Moore, James D.. 'London, BM E 14219.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10367. Accessed: 21 Jan, 2026.