Ost. Ber. P. 17818
TAD D.07.28
Metadata
- Collection
- Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin, Germany | ÄMP (Public)
- Genre
-
- Missive
- Language
- Aramaic
- Script
- Aramaic
- Find Type
- Unclear
- Created by
- James D. Moore
- Material
- clay | sherd (for ostracon)
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-01-18
- References
-
- Lepper, Verena M. et al. . ERC 100722.
- Porten, Bezalel and Yardeni, Ada 1986. D.07.28.
- 2020. http://elephantine.smb.museum/record/ID100722/.
General Notes
Perhaps from Elephantine/Syene since it is in the Berlin collection, but first published by TAD.
“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.
“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
Traces of what may be ink are visible on the CC side, however, this is an unusual ostracon in which a missive appears to be written on the CV side only.
Text and Translation
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James Moore
James Moore
Greetings, Nathan. Now, look[ ...]
... salt in your possession ◦◦◦[...]
... 1 h(andful) (in a) package ◦[...]
...BH.
... 20
Moore, James D.. 'Ost. Ber. P. 17818.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10379. Accessed: 20 Jan, 2026.