CG no. 237
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
-
- Lepper, Verena M. et al. . 313121.
- Lozachmeur, Hélène 2006. 237.
“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
cv 2: Following AD-S and Lemaire, “Review,” 182. This may be a by-form of the name בלבן “Belbani” (EM 43479 col. i ln. 14) meaning “Bel builds.”
cv 3: The Aramaic reading is certain, but it is unclear if one should read “wolf,” which in Eygpt likely refers to a jackal, or a substantive of √דאב “to languish.”
Text and Translation
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James Moore
James Moore
[...]◦Ḥ
[...]◦ Indeed
[... ]⸢tu⸣nic and say/he said
[...] saying send
[... ]and take
say/he said to me/her/him
Pelbani. Indeed
The jackal/the languished will not M[...]
Now, ⸢sen⸣[d ...]
and ◦[...]
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 237.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/11102. Accessed: 21 Jan, 2026.