“Localizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,” n.d. TBA.
CG no. 066
Metadata
- Collection
- Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, France | AIBL (Public)
- Keywords
-
- missive
- receipt
- 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]
- Palimpsest?
- true
- Material
- clay | sherd (for ostracon)
- Text Direction Side 1
- Material lines are diagonal ↙︎
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-06-28
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: Writing effaced.
cc 7: so too Lemaire, "Review," 180.
cc 8: An א from the palimpsest is somewhat visible.
Lozachmeur
cc
1. [...]◦[...]
2. [...הוש]ר̇ת
3. [...]◦ הלו
4. [...]◦ס( )ונפר
5. [...]מ̇בה ב̇ש̇◦{ד|ר}
6. [...יה]ב̇ו לה שערנ
7. [...]ט̇ ו̇ה̇נ̇ י̇ה̇ב̇ו̇
8. [...]א[פ]מ ⸣ה⸢וי
edge
1. שגא
Text and Translation
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James Moore Last updated 07 April, 2026 by James D. Moore
James Moore Last updated 07 April, 2026 by James D. Moore
[...]◦
[... ]I/you/she [se]⸢nt⸣
[...]◦. Indeed,
[...]◦ ˀEswenefer
[...]◦BH with barley (of)
[... ]they [ga]⸢ve⸣ to him/her barley
[...]Ṭ. And if they gave
[...] to me from ⸢ˀA⸣bî/my ⸢fa⸣ther
...[...]
...[...]
...[...]
...[...]
...[...]
much.
Moore, James D., Matthew Herzog. 'CG no. 066.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/11118. Accessed: 29 Jun, 2026.