“Localizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,” n.d. TBA.
CG no. 097
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]
- Palimpsest?
- true
- Material
- clay | sherd (for ostracon)
- Text Direction Side 1
- parallel (∥) to the material's lines
- Text Direction Side 2
- parallel (∥) to the material's lines
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-06-28
General Notes
CV has traces of an illegible text. Unclear if this was part of the palimpsest or the overwritten text. Probably the palimpsest because the CC ends with room for another line.
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
א as a vacat marker or superlinear addition indicating the edge of the tablet. I prefer the latter.
For line 7 see Lemaire, Review 181. For the meaning of line 2 see Gzella review
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,] Nathan. Now, {you all should know |our entrance}
[... the mea]surement of the chamber which Hô⸢še⸣[\ˁa/]
[...]◦TY when it/he is impure. Look (m.p.),
[... ]to you (m.p.) which is in the field/outside
[...]Y. Now, look (m.p.)
[...]◦M with
[... on] account of \the/ servants.
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 097.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10950. Accessed: 30 Jun, 2026.