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CG no. 081

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)
Text Direction Side 1
parallel (∥) to the material's lines
Updated by
James D. Moore, 2026-01-18
Date (Metadata)
Gregorian -525 to -399 [Persian, 5th cent. BCE]
References
  • Lepper, Verena M. et al. . erc 312965.
  • Lozachmeur, Hélène 2006. 81.
General Notes
Unclear if there is a palimpsest

“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
HL following AD-S sees 7 lines, with line 4 completly effaced. This cannot be so. cc 2: Lemaire = מינ (180) cc 4: Lozachmeur's translation and footnote (p. 244 n. 145) came up with [to ]Syene, but she did not supply a transliteration. cc 6: The numeral 20 is similar to that found on CG no. 078

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James Moore Last updated 06 August, 2025 by James D. Moore

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James Moore Last updated 06 August, 2025 by James D. Moore

Greetings, Nathan. Now, in⸢deed⸣[ ...]
a vessel. N⸢ow, fish⸣ are fe[w ...]
◦◦... ...◦ˀ◦[...]
[to ]Syene(.) ⸢the fish⸣ ...[...]
I sent in the boat of ˀE[spemet]
20 wood (units) Ṭ◦[...]
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 081.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10937. Accessed: 20 Jan, 2026.