CG no. 157
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
- parallel (∥) to the material's lines
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-01-18
- References
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- Lepper, Verena M. et al. . erc 313041.
- Lozachmeur, Hélène 2006. 157.
“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.
Text and Translation
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James Moore
James Moore
Greetings, ˀAḥûṭab. Now, [...]
they shall flatten/hammer it and make[ ...]
Natan tomorrow. He shall carry (it)[ ...]
Moreover, they shall meet the boat [...]
Natan, Yislaḥ, and T◦[...]
I sent [this] day[ ...]
1 package t[o ...]
◦◦...T...YN
◦◦LṬ◦◦ ...H
⸢with⸣ Mešullam ◦◦◦◦ ⸢ca⸣me
◦◦◦H ...
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 157.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10919. Accessed: 20 Jan, 2026.