CG no. 136
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)
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-01-18
- References
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- Lepper, Verena M. et al. . erc 313020.
- Lozachmeur, Hélène 2006. 136.
“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
Rotation: top-to-bottom then clockwise 90 degrees
cv 1: זעיר תקמ: cf. Ahiqar ln. 85. For castor seed, cf. CG no. 58 cc 3.
cv 3: בקל: following the syntax in line 1, and reading from root קלל. The writer first wrote a ק then erased it. Contextually reading "a vegitable" seems unlikely.
Text and Translation
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James Moore
James Moore
Greetings, Yedanyah. N[ow, ...]
Send me the/a vessel (of) [...]
a vessel. Now, send m[e ...]
a place which ˀ◦[...]
a little castor seed./Swiftly you must rise. In[deed ...]
kills/ed for me/ kill(ed) me. No[w, ...]
In haste/malt sen[d me...]
ask (for) an instruction/decree[ ...]
and send me[ ...]
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 136.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10923. Accessed: 20 Jan, 2026.