P. 17821
TAD D.07.47
Metadata
- Collection
- Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin, Germany | ÄMP (Public)
- Genre
-
- Missive
- Language
- Aramaic
- Script
- Aramaic
- Find Type
- Unclear
- Palimpsest?
- true
- 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 306594.
- Porten, Bezalel and Yardeni, Ada 1986. D.07.47.
- 2020. http://elephantine.smb.museum/record/ID306594/.
General Notes
Provenance uncertain, but probably Elephantine due to being in the Berlin collection.
“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
cv 3: The palimpsest or an errasure reads למ under 𐡛.
Text and Translation
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James Moore
James Moore
{[...]ˀ |[...]Y} ⸢chop⸣/⸢our leather⸣/⸢pray⸣/⸢net⸣[...]
{[...]D |[...]R} (the) rest (of)
[... b]oats I shall send
[...]Ḥ surely, I shall bury
[...] the ⸢va⸣lue/⸢bl⸣ood.
[...]◦
[...]... his/her hand
[...] send 10 to me
[...]⸢to⸣ you. And \my/ food(-ration)/eat (f.s.)
[...]◦◦ I ate yesterda\y/
Moore, James D.. 'P. 17821.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10399. Accessed: 20 Jan, 2026.