CG no. 085
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
- 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
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- Lepper, Verena M. et al. . erc 312969.
- Lozachmeur, Hélène 2006. 85.
“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
Illegible traces on cv. The palimpsest on concave is partially legible.
For the phrase “to the son of PN” rather than using the first name of the person, cf. CG no. 82 לבר אושיח.
Text and Translation
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James Moore Last updated 06 August, 2025 by James D. Moore
James Moore Last updated 06 August, 2025 by James D. Moore
[... ]Go (f.s.) to the son/field of Hôša[ˁ ...]
[...] Šarayah [...]
[...] ⸢to Syene⸣ ...[...]
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 085.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10941. Accessed: 20 Jan, 2026.