CG no. 205
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)
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-01-18
- References
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- Lepper, Verena M. et al. . ERC 313089.
- Lozachmeur, Hélène 2006. 205.
“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
cc 3: The final letters מט are clear. The hand spaces letters well, so the fact that two מ's are written ontop of each other suggests that the writer's pen was going dry and s/he dipped it then continued with a darker מ.
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
[... ]I/you/she sent (in) your (m.s.) right (hand)
[... shi]pment in which is 24
[... ]the [do]cument. If it/he arr⸢iv⸣[es]
[...]◦ to you (m.p.) ⸢Š⸣[◦◦]
[...] to me
(In) Epiph sen[d]/sen[t ...]
a little motar/gypsum [...]
Petêˀ⸢sê⸣ with you (m.s.) [...]
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 205.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/11012. Accessed: 20 Jan, 2026.