CG no. 175 + CG no. 185 (= HL J8)
Metadata
- Collection
- Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, France | AIBL (Public)
- Genre
-
- missive (?); religious ostracon; expiation ritual
- 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)
- Text Direction Side 1
- perpendicular (⟂) to the material's lines
- Text Direction Side 2
- perpendicular (⟂) to the material's lines
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-01-18
- References
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- Lepper, Verena M. et al. . erc 313059.
- Lozachmeur, Hélène 2006. 175.
“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
cc 4: Dušek, “Review,” 120 = וידניה.
cc 11: Grassi, “Bemerkungen,” esp. 89ff is correct that √kpr does not take a direct object. Setaryah, which here must be a woman, and “each woman” must be the subjects of the respective verbs.
cv 5: Alt. “she said to you”.
cv 7: lemaire wrongly reads אמתי instead of יהה
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
[...]◦
[...] I stayed the night
[... t]od⸢a⸣y
[... so]n of Yedanyah
[...]ˀ 10 (...)
[...daugh]ter of Saraka
[...]⸢by the li⸣fe of Yahô
[...]{N|K} on top of
[...](the) [d]⸢a⸣y which I shall die,
may Yahô of Hosts carry you (f.s.)
Setaryah is pardoned
Each woman is pardoned.
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which ⸢{ˀ|Y}N⸣[...]
you (f.s.) ma[d]e[...]
to your (f.s.) heart TM[...]
[st]omach pain[...]
and I said to you[...]
Now, if B[...]
Now, until he comes to you (f.s), Yahô
do not approach!
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 175 + CG no. 185 (= HL J8).' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10912. Accessed: 20 Jan, 2026.