CG no. 212
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)
- Palimpsest?
- true
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-01-18
- References
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- Lepper, Verena M. et al. . erc 313096.
- Lozachmeur, Hélène 2006. 212.
“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 2: The large quantity of this lost item stands out. Such large quantities do not appear in the ostraca.
cc 3: This rare word שנטא is only found in 11906. Brooklyn Museum 47.218.150 + 47.218.97 + 47.218.155 frags.. recto. 11. where it is part of a list in a wifehood contract. This seems unlikely. Better possibilities are שאני (my) sandles or שארה (its) remaining. The first ◦ is almost certainly an א.
cv 1: ראש קט is strange. The word for "head" is very rare at Elephantine.
cv 3: the waw may be the start of an Egyptian or Persian name.
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
[... bar]ley, 4 qabs.
[...]N, 160
[...] Š◦◦◦◦, 4 \which/
capital/head. Cucmb[ers ...]
to me the hatchet [...]
Now, i⸢f⸣ W[...]
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 212.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/11018. Accessed: 20 Jan, 2026.