“Localizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,” n.d. TBA.
CG no. 078
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
- Text Direction Side 1
- perpendicular (⟂) to the material's lines
- Text Direction Side 2
- parallel (∥) to the material's lines
- 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
Ostraca flipped top-to-bottom then rotated 90 degrees.
The palmipsest is illegible, tough traces of some letters are visible on cc.
cv 2: כדנה is rare and may indicate an Eastern Aramaic education tradition.
The numeral 20 is similar to that found on CG no. 081.
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. Aḥû]ṭab. Now, I made
180[(+) ...] yesterday. Now,
[...]L each to them (f.p.) just as
Moreover, bread [...]
... So,[ ...]
◦◦◦ to the han⸢d⸣[...]
⸢wh⸣ich belongs to me ◦◦◦[...]
food-ration to him/her[ ...]
And you (pl.) ◦[...]
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 078.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10956. Accessed: 29 Jun, 2026.