CG no. 137
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
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-01-18
- References
-
- Lepper, Verena M. et al. . erc 313021.
- Lozachmeur, Hélène 2006. 137.
“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: side-to-side ?
cc 2: Interpreting לטמאו is difficult. It may be (1) an error for לא טמאו "(which) they were not impure"; (2) an error for לטעמ או "(which is) for/to a decree or"; (3) a noun meaning "(which is) for impruity". Less likely options include (4) D-stem infinitive "(which is) making impure." But one expects a ת or ות ending in IA; (5) Perhaps the writer is thinking in Babylonian and used liṭmaˀû where Aramaic uses יטמאו. Or (5) לטמ או "(which is) for Ṭam or", but a proper name ṬM is so far unattested and certainly not Semitic.
cc 3: The thin vertical stroke following מ is connected at the top to an intential horizontal stroke, and looks like a perfectly written כ. This would mean the next letter is either ו or י with a longer than expected vertical stroke. If we read בתקמא as HL, then we must assume that the strokes between מ and א are part of the palimpsest, that survived due to being written near a throw line.
cc Lozachmeur
1. ...
2. [...]◦רנ זי לטמאו [...]
3. [...]להי בתקמא ואל[...]
cv Lozachmeur
none
Text and Translation
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James Moore
James Moore
[...]...
[...]◦RN which to defile
[...]{L|Ṭ} him in the castor oil and do not
...[...]
Moore, James D., Matthew Herzog. 'CG no. 137.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10924. Accessed: 20 Jan, 2026.