“Localizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,” n.d. TBA.
CG no. 061
Metadata
- Collection
- Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, France | AIBL (Public)
- Keyword
-
- 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]
- 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, 2026-06-28
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
cv 2: For חטנ meaning "wheat" see EM 43497 and Pl. 13461B- P. 13448-13 + B/AM x 428, 17 + B/AM x 420, 16 (+) Pl. 13445E- P. 13448-8. Here "hook of wheat" is interpreted as "sickle." HL's translation suggests וו is an error for ו.
cv 4: HL = משחה
Text and Translation
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James Moore Last updated 07 April, 2026 by James D. Moore
James Moore Last updated 07 April, 2026 by James D. Moore
[...] silver 1 K(arš) on which
[... ]and if he shall not give
[...]◦ they made/make
[...]◦ saying
[...]⸢L⸣
Total: 8. And ◦[...]
1 garment, a sickle[ ...]
Moreover seek for Ḥ⸢r⸣[( )... ]
his/her/its month and[ ...]
oil [...]
◦◦[...]
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 061.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10523. Accessed: 01 Jul, 2026.