“Localizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,” n.d. TBA.
CG no. 208
Metadata
- Collection
- Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, France | AIBL (Public)
- Keywords
-
- Name List
- Vessel Label
- 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 | vessel (or pot fragment/sherd)
- Palimpsest?
- false
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-06-28
General Notes
There are traces on cc, but they are illegible. It is possible that these "traces" are not ink and that this is a jar label. But the structure of the name list, which is written around the shape of the sherd, suggests that this is an ostracon.
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
cc Moore
illegible
cc Lozachmeur
Possible traces but illegible
cv Lozachmeur
1. גמריה בר [...]
2. סימכ בר מ[...]
3. בר מ⸣שלמ בר⸢
4. פלט⸣י בר⸢ [...]
5. נריה ⸣בר⸢[...]
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
Gemaryah son of
Be⸢n⸣yah, Me⸢š⸣ullam
son of ˀA⸢ḥya⸣[ˀ]
Pelaṭyah son of
Neryah
Moore, James D., Matthew Herzog. 'CG no. 208.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/10999. Accessed: 30 Jun, 2026.