CG no. 159
Metadata
- Collection
- Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, France | AIBL (Public)
- Genre
-
- Missive
- Language
- Aramaic
- Script
- Aramaic
- Find Type
- Excavation/Acquisition
- Locus
- Check notes in Lozachmeur/FM DB for each piece. Some items were acquired at the site. Others found. The X and Y collections are very problematic with regard to provenance.
- Acquired
- Clermont-Ganneau [1906–1911]
- 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
- References
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- Lepper, Verena M. et al. . erc 313043.
- Lozachmeur, Hélène 2006. 159.
“Localizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,” n.d. TBA.
Lozachmeur, Hélène. La collection Clermont-Ganneau: ostraca, épigraphes sur jarre étiquettes de bois. 2 vols. Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 35. Paris: de Boccard, 2006.
Textual Notes
cc 2: AD-S (in HL) cited Syriac as evidence, but see the contemporary Akkadian ištānu.
Text and Translation
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James Moore
James Moore
[... s]⸢e⸣nd (f.s.) me
[... ]the great [no]rth wind
[... N]ow, ⸢1⸣ qa⸢b⸣
⸢H... all⸣[ ...]
Now, ◦◦ ⸢ˀ⸣[...]
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 159.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10499. Accessed: 20 Jan, 2026.