CG no. 050
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. . erc 312934.
- Lozachmeur, Hélène 2006. 50.
“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
compare Dan 3:2 and Ezra 6:16.
HALOT: * חֲנֻכָּה: חנךְ: loanword from < Heb.; JArm., DSS (Dalman Wb. 154a; Beyer Arm. Texte 582); Palm. (Jean-H. Dictionnaire 92; Hoftijzer-Jongeling Dictionary 388); Bauer-Leander BArm. 187b: cstr. חֲנֻכַּת: dedication: חֲנֻכַּת צַלְמָא Da 32f, חֲנֻכַּת בֵּית־אֱלָהָא Ezr 616f. †
CAL
for a study on חנכה although the reading is incorrect on the text studied therein see: Lauth SPAW 2, 97–149.
Text and Translation
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James Moore
James Moore
Greetings, ◦[...]
to ˀAḥûṭa⸢b⸣ [...]
a little to show/Ḥawaya[...]
the Ḥanukah-ceremony ⸢which/of⸣ [...]
I/you/she did no⸢t⸣ send ⸢to⸣[...]
⸢I/you/she⸣ sent[...]
Moore, James D.. 'CG no. 050.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/11153. Accessed: 20 Jan, 2026.