“Localizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,” n.d. TBA.
CG no. X15
Metadata
- Collection
- Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, France | AIBL (Public)
- Keyword
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- Missive
- Language
- Aramaic
- Script
- Aramaic
- Find Type
- Unprovenanced: Aquisition
- Acquired
- AIBL (Clermont-Ganneau Collection)
- Material
- clay | sherd (for ostracon)
- Palimpsest?
- true
- Text Direction Side 1
- Material lines are diagonal ↘︎
- Text Direction Side 2
- Material lines are diagonal ↙︎
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-06-28
- Date (Metadata)
- Gregorian -525 to -399 [Persian, 5th cent. BCE]
General Notes
content suggests elephantine or syene provenance.
Probably a palimpsest, but this is uncertain.
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.
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