CG no. 256
Metadata
- Collection
- Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, France | AIBL (Public)
- Genres
-
- unknown
- effaced
- 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
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-01-18
- References
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- Lepper, Verena M. et al. . 313140.
- Lozachmeur, Hélène 2006. 256.
“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
<note>HL reads on cv one line of overwritten text as עד “until” and two lines of palimpsest each as בר “son of”. I only see the top of one character, {ב|ד|ר}. HL sees nothing on cc, but in the IR photographs, three faded/erased characters in a large script are visible. </note>
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 256.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10984. Accessed: 21 Jan, 2026.