CG no. 045
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 312929.
- Lozachmeur, Hélène 2006. 45.
“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
Interference from the palimpsest and the poor state preservation makes it difficult to read the text.
cc 3: see CG no. 194 for קפת without א, proving it is a final ת not final ה.
cc 5: Lemaire, "Review," 180: ולא זבנ
cc 6: So too Lemaire, "Review," 180.
cc 7: Cf. ADAB C1.29.
cv: Too effaced to decipher.
Text and Translation
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James Moore
James Moore
Greetings, Nathan. Now, [...]
you sent me with[ ...]
to me {with 1 qab | in a basket}. Now, ⸢L⸣◦[...]
you may eat[ ... ]on account of[ ...]
that which they are selling, buy (m.s.) all of it
[for] ⸢yourself⸣ tomorrow. And they may say[ ...]
[... ]its/his/her sour milk ◦[...]
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 045.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/11148. Accessed: 20 Jan, 2026.