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CG no. 169

TAD TAD D.07.02. HL 169.

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
Updated by
James D. Moore, 2026-01-18
References
  • Lepper, Verena M. et al. . erc 313053.
  • Lozachmeur, Hélène 2006. 169.
  • Porten, Bezalel and Yardeni, Ada 1986. TAD D.07.02.

“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.
Porten, Bezalel, and Ada Yardeni. Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt. 4 vols. Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1986.
Textual Notes
Rotation: top-to-bottom then c. 45 degree turn clockwise CC Palimpsest Moore illegible. See HL’s readings. HL cc Lozachmeur following TAD D.7.2 1. [ש]למ אחוטב כענ הושרי
2. לי זעיר מלח יומא זנה
3. והנ מלח לאית בביתא
4. זבנו מנ אלפי עבורא 
5. זי ביב הלו
6. לאיתי לי cv TAD 1. מלח למשמ בקמח 𐡘 CV Palimpsest Lozachmeur 1. שלמ מיכה ◦◦◦◦
2. כענ ◦◦◦◦
3. לכ◦◦◦

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James Moore

[Gr]eetings, ˀAḥûṭab. Now, send
me a little salt this day.
And if there is no salt in the house,
buy (m.p. err for f.s.) from the boats of grain
which are in Yeb. Indeed,
I, myself, have no
salt to use in 1 (serving of) flour.
Moore, James D., Matthew Herzog. 'CG no. 169.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10508. Accessed: 21 Jan, 2026.