CG no. 004
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
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-01-18
- References
-
- Lepper, Verena M. et al. . ERC 312888.
- Lozachmeur, Hélène 2006. 4.
“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 1: D-S and C see a line above the first legible letters. I’m not sure.
Text and Translation
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James Moore
James Moore
Greetings, Nathan. Now se[nt you ...]
10 karš (are) they. Now, I [...]
18 karš, 6 š(eqel) [...]
2 c(ups[?]) and 3 ḥallourin to give(?)[...]
25 with silver ◦[...]
and his/her son [...]
And you shall not [give] ˀ◦[…]
Morever, I found it ◦◦[…]
in Syene after you
in/with silver, 2 c(ups[?]). And you shall not {s[ay]|co[nsume}[…]
Do not pay them in sil⸢ve⸣[r …]
2 {[kar]š |š(eqels)}. Until with you, with them[…]
Do not take. Now, […]
[to] you (pl.) whom he/they will not pay/give[…]
to the {day |infant}[ …]
[I] s[ent …]
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 004.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/11127. Accessed: 20 Jan, 2026.