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München, SMÄK ÄS 899

TAD D.07.37

Metadata

Collection
Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Aegyptischen Sammlung, Munich | SMÄK ÄS (Public)
Genre
  • Missive
Language
Aramaic
Script
Aramaic
Find Type
Unprovenanced: Purchase
Acquired
Mook, Friedrich [Unknown]
Created by
James D. Moore
Material
clay | sherd (for ostracon)
Updated by
James D. Moore, 2026-01-18
References
  • Académie des inscriptions & belles -lettres (France ) Commission du Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum, Jean-Baptiste Chabot and University of Michigan 1900. RÉS no. 1299.
  • Lepper, Verena M. et al. . ERC 308095.
  • Porten, Bezalel and Yardeni, Ada 1986. D.07.37.
General Notes
Aquisition info according to Lidz. EsE 3:19–20.

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.
Textual Notes
cc 2: The erasure may have read זנה "this (day)". Lidzbarski, EsE, 3: 19–21

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James Moore

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James Moore

[Greetings, Na]than. Now, be
[… ] a son of the day from/who(?)
[… I shall dis]patch to you (pl.) wood
[…]N they dispatched/dispatch!
[…] which/who(m is) with
the son of Anḥepemeˁê […]
Milk (and) Pasoˀ a litt[le ...]
And I will ma<k>e it (f.) for myself ḤM[…]
oil and ground (product)[…]
and without fail[…]
Moore, James D.. 'München, SMÄK ÄS 899.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10386. Accessed: 20 Jan, 2026.