CG no. 062
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
- Material lines are diagonal ↘︎
- Text Direction Side 2
- Material lines are diagonal ↙︎
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-01-18
- References
-
- Lepper, Verena M. et al. . erc 312946.
- Lozachmeur, Hélène 2006. 62.
“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
cv 4: HL reads פסחחנתי as a passover gift פסח חנתי but the grammar is unusual. Given the Egyptian in cv 2, it seems this might be an Egyptian name. Perhaps pa-...-ntr ?
Text and Translation
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James Moore Last updated 06 August, 2025 by James D. Moore
James Moore Last updated 06 August, 2025 by James D. Moore
[...]◦[...]
[...]MW inhabitants/those sitting[ ...]
[...]ˀNˀ, saying, “I sleep[...]
[...]◦ in it in Elephantine at night[ ...]
[...]◦t ◦◦◦◦◦ 5, which[ ...]
[...]◦◦[...]
[... ]⸢f⸣ish to Parnaḥ ◦[...]
[...]LH and the house of the iškaru-tax which [...]
saying, "Psḥḥnty is before me ◦[...]
⸢Moreover,⸣ said/say[ ...]
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 062.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10524. Accessed: 20 Jan, 2026.