“Localizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,” n.d. TBA.
P. 8763
TAD D.07.26
Metadata
- Collection
- Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin, Germany | ÄMP (Public)
- Keyword
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- Missive
- Language
- Aramaic
- Script
- Aramaic
- Material
- clay | sherd (for ostracon)
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-06-28
General Notes
Said to be bought by Berlin in 1897.
Porten, Bezalel, and Ada Yardeni. Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt. 4 vols. Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1986.
Sachau, Eduard. Aramäische Papyrus und Ostraka aus einer jüdischen Militär-Kolonie zu Elephantine. 2 vols. Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1911. https://archive.org/details/aramischepapyr02sachuoft/page/n17/mode/2up.
Sayce, A. H., and Arthur E. Cowley. Aramaic Papyri Discovered at Assuan. Edited by Seymour de Ricci. London: Moring, 1906.
“Rubensohn-Bibliothek | Die ägyptische und orientalische „Rubensohn-Bibliothek“, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin,” July 4, 2020. https://elephantine.smb.museum/.
Textual Notes
cc 2: Both ת’s are clear in the color photograph. Grammatically the word is problematic. Either delete one ת and read following TAD or understand as a fem. subjunct. in which case מלה (unwritten) may be the subject.
cc 3: cf. Syr. √ܫܚܩ pael.
PSBA 25, p. 314f
RÉS no. 496
Text and Translation
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[...]... to Maḥseyah
[...]⸢YN⸣ send (f.s.)
[...] which[...]
{[...]ḤD |[...]ḤR} Ḥ◦◦
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