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◦◦◦
Text and Translation
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James Moore
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.