CG no. 244
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. . 313128.
- Lozachmeur, Hélène 2006. 244.
“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: Read correctly by AD-S and Lemaire, “Review,” 182.
cv 1: Meaning uncertain. In P. 11371 TAD translates as “grits.” HL prefers here “sand.”
cv 3: Read correctly by AD-S and Lemaire, “Review,” 182.
Alt. “they shall lack (in quality)” = “be defective”.
Text and Translation
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James Moore
James Moore
[...]{ˁ|Š} I/you (m.s.)/she did not find
[...]I [inqu]ired and sought
[...]to⸢d⸣ay
[...]◦⸢N⸣ if/they (f.p.) (are)
to the grits. Moreover, H[...]
to you (m.p.) rou[gh-cut] wood [...]
they shall be diminished (in quantity) ⸢M⸣[...]
they counted ⸢Š⸣[...]
and to ⸢M⸣[...]
⸢and⸣[ ...]
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 244.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/11097. Accessed: 21 Jan, 2026.