“Localizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,” n.d. TBA.
CG no. 084 + CG no. 088 (= HL J05)
Metadata
- Collection
- Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, France | AIBL (Public)
- Keyword
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- 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]
- Material
- clay | sherd (for ostracon)
- Palimpsest?
- true
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-06-28
- Date (Metadata)
- Gregorian -525 to -399 [Persian, 5th cent. BCE]
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 90 decrees clockwise.
a א is visible from the palimpsest after אושר on cc.
cc 6: לה חמה מינ: Lemaire (2011, 367) reads: אפ להחמה מינ “also to heat water”, but the infinitive is unexpected here, and he does not account for the final broken word.
Dušek, "Review," 119 "No. 84 cc-cv (AD-S) (p. 246): Lozachmeur agrees with the reading of Dupont-Sommer, but some words that are legible on the ostracon are missing in this transcription of cc and cv. For example, in cv 6, the first word of the line seems to be m~rr 'tomorrow'; and in cv 7, slbw, 'they sent', is legible."
Text and Translation
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James Moore Last updated 07 April, 2026 by James D. Moore
James Moore Last updated 07 April, 2026 by James D. Moore
Greetings, Yedanyah N[ow, ...]
Yesterday, (was) saying to us, "◦[...](")
I shall send tomorrow. Take (m.p.)[ ...]
◦◦◦ and make/a servant with[...]
the living/alive. Indeed, thi[s ...]
◦◦◦◦ and no oi[l]/leath[er]/sand[als (?) ...]
to {◦◦TR |◦◦GD |◦◦GR} to [me] ⸢Now Y⸣[...]
◦◦◦(◦) water
to me. The ba⸢rley of Y⸣◦◦◦ [...]
and another day. And ⸢I shall⸣[ ...]
On the day, not ◦[...]
... 2[+] {[sh]ekels |[m]alts [...]
in ⸢your (m.s.) hand. More⸣over, go out (m.p.) [...]
Tomorrow before Nathan[ ...]
◦◦◦◦◦◦ send (m.pl.) [...]
these, 20 wer⸢e⸣ not[ ...]
to me and them
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 084 + CG no. 088 (= HL J05).' DEAPS. 14 Jun, 2026. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10940. Accessed: 01 Jul, 2026.