“Localizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,” n.d. TBA.
CG no. 012
Metadata
- Collection
- Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, France | AIBL (Public)
- Keyword
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- 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]
- Material
- clay | sherd (for ostracon)
- Text Direction Side 1
- Material lines are diagonal ↘︎
- Text Direction Side 2
- Material lines are diagonal ↙︎
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-06-28
- Date (Metadata)
- Gregorian -525 to -399 [Persian, 5th cent. BCE]
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: cf. A.4.1.5.
cc 4: The meaning of "the day of the wind" is unknown. It calls to mind the Hebrew phrase, RWḤ HYWM "the wind of the day" (Gen 3:8), but this may be a misnomer.
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
[... se]⸢n⸣d
[...] the [...]{D|R}PY, 2
[...]◦N. Beware (m.p.)
[...]◦ on the day of the wind/spirit
[...]◦ˀ
[...]H
from ⸢Y⸣[...]
{that |to you (m.s.)} ◦◦◦[...]
⸢o⸣r ◦◦◦[...]
...[...]
to him/it ◦[...]
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 012.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/11134. Accessed: 30 Jun, 2026.