CG no. 235
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. . 313119.
- Lozachmeur, Hélène 2006. 235.
“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 8: Perhaps the final line reads ידע טעמ “knower of (the) decree”?
cc 2: מאנא: following Lemaire and Dupont-Sommer.
cc 3: נגנג: following Lemaire and Dupont-Sommer. As the meaning, tentively reading from Egy. mkmk “memo”.
Text and Translation
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James Moore
James Moore
[...] to me a pick(axe)
[...]◦H the vessel
[... shall g]ive/[Na]tan a memo(?)
[... ]ˀEsḥnum
[...]◦Y to Tataˀ
[... ]and he shall make it (f.s.)
[...]LH
saying, he made i[t] (f.s) reach[ ...]
until they shall they help[ ...]
[... shall ]bring with Byl[...]
Now, when Y[...]
in Syene go (f.s.)[ ...]
and he shall lie in wait and ⸢ˁ⸣[...]
so take (m.s.) a ration[ ...]
Know (c.pl.) not![ ...]
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 235.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/11104. Accessed: 21 Jan, 2026.