CG no. X19
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
- Text Direction Side 1
- perpendicular (⟂) to the material's lines
- Text Direction Side 2
- blank
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-01-18
- Date (Metadata)
- Gregorian -525 to -399 [Persian, 5th cent. BCE]
- References
-
- Lepper, Verena M. et al. . 313183.
- Lozachmeur, Hélène 2006. X019.
“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
The palimpsest is illegible, but its orientation on cc suggests that cv traces belong to the palmisest and not the overwritten composition.
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
[... ˀAḥ]⸢û⸣ṭab. No⸢w,⸣[ ...]
[...]H, saying, ⸢ˀ⸣[...]
[... ]to my chil⸢dren⸣/the sons of [...]
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. X19.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/11081. Accessed: 21 Jan, 2026.