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CG no. 171

Metadata

Collection
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, France | AIBL (Public)
Genres
  • missive (?)
  • Note
  • scratch tablet (?)
  • Practice / (School/Scribal) Exercise
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
see note
Text Direction Side 2
see note
Updated by
James D. Moore, 2026-01-18
References
  • Lepper, Verena M. et al. . erc 313055.
  • Lozachmeur, Hélène 2006. 171.
General Notes
The direction of the writing seems to vary. Perhaps this is a practice tablet. But cv 4 seems to clearly read כעת which indicates that it was once a missive.

“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
HL cc Lozachmeur 1. ...
2. ...
3. 𐡜 𐡜 𐡛 ◦◦
4. ◦◦◦{רוח| [ת]רוח}
5. ⸣ל נה ה⸢◦ cv Lozachmeur illegible

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James Moore

side: cc line: 01
side: cc line: 02
side: cc line: 03
side: cc line: 04
side: cc line: 05
side: cv line: 01
side: cv line: 02
side: cv line: 03
side: cv line: 04
side: cv line: 05

James Moore

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...
...
... ⸢In⸣deed Ḥ
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...
...
...
⸢N⸣ow, ◦
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Moore, James D., Matthew Herzog. 'CG no. 171.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10509. Accessed: 20 Jan, 2026.