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Ost. Ber. P. 10680

TAD D.07.04

Metadata

Collection
Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin, Germany | ÄMP (Public)
Genre
  • Missive
Language
Aramaic
Script
Aramaic
Find Type
Excavation
Acquired
Otto Rubensohn and Fredriech Zucker [1906–1907]
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 100078.
  • Porten, Bezalel and Yardeni, Ada 1986. TAD D.07.04.
  • Sachau, Eduard and Robarts - University of Toronto 1911. Sachau, Ost. 78, 2 / taf. 65, 2.
  • 2020. http://elephantine.smb.museum/record/ID100078/.

“Localizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,” n.d. TBA.
Porten, Bezalel, and Ada Yardeni. Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt. 4 vols. Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1986.
Sachau, Eduard. Aramäische Papyrus und Ostraka aus einer jüdischen Militär-Kolonie zu Elephantine. 2 vols. Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1911. https://archive.org/details/aramischepapyr02sachuoft/page/n17/mode/2up.
“Rubensohn-Bibliothek | Die ägyptische und orientalische „Rubensohn-Bibliothek“, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin,” July 4, 2020. https://elephantine.smb.museum/.
Textual Notes
TAD sees a full text on CV. But this can't be. see textbank table. CC is CV is illegible in modern color photos. Note that a suffix on a f.s. imv. will hide the י: ושלחהי והב is either missing the י, or it was lost. Could be on the next line as this writer separated ל from לסונ

Ostr. Berlin P. 10680 ERC 100078 http://elephantine.smb.museum/record/ID100078/ Sachau Ost. 78, 2 / taf. 65, 2 TAD D.07.04

Text and Translation

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James Moore Last updated 06 August, 2025 by James D. Moore

side: cc line: 01
side: cc line: 02
side: cc line: 03
side: cc line: 04
side: cc line: 05
side: cv line: 01
side: cv line: 02
side: cv line: 03
side: cv line: 04
side: cv line: 05

James Moore Last updated 06 August, 2025 by James D. Moore

Greetings, Aḥûṭāb. ◦[...]
do not increase. Nathan ⸢ˀ⸣[...]
Syene from the boat ([...])
[... ]⸢to⸣morr⸢ow⸣. And giv⸢e⸣ ([f].s.)[...]
[...]◦ look at (f.s.) [...]
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Moore, James D.. 'Ost. Ber. P. 10680.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/11205. Accessed: 21 Jan, 2026.