“Localizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,” n.d. TBA.
DAIK / SI O 2870, Fund-Nr. 17250a + O 2314, Fund-Nr. 17250a
Röllig no. 14; Röllig no. 24
Metadata
- Collection
- DAIK, Elephantine Storehouse | DAIK-Eleph
- Keyword
-
- Vessel Label
- Language
- Phoenician / Punic
- Script
- Phoenician
- Find Type
- Excavation
- Locus
- see doc_num
- Acquired
- DAIK [1987–1992]
- Material
- clay | vessel (or pot fragment/sherd)
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-06-28
General Notes
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Röllig, Wolfgang. “Neue phönizische und aramäische Krugaufschriften und Ostraka aus Elephantine.” In The First Cataract of the Nile: One Region - Diverse Perspectives, edited by Dietrich Raue, Stephan Johannes Seidlmayer, and Philipp Speiser, 185–203. Sonderschrift (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Abteilung Kairo) 36. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013.
Textual Notes
Commentary: Picture “Taf. 34b” appears to show writing on the left side of the jar. This inscription Röllig studies as no. 24.
Aramaic: Reading follows Röllig. The ר is in doubt. It looks like a פ. The initial נ could also be פ, according to Röllig.
It seems to me that Röllig may have misread his photographs and O 2314 was not edited because the large piece O 2870 is clearly one solid fragment and not two.
Phoenician
hand 1
ا1. [...]◦
2. [...]⸢ש⸣ודי
3. [...]◦{ב|פ}ת שנת
hand 2 vacat
4. לאדרבעל
5. בנ פבס
Aramaic
1. נערמנ
Perhaps read שבת and translate as a name. Cf. the name in Old South Arabian (HALOT שבתי).
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
[...]◦ (Phoenician, hand 1)
[...]ŠWDY (Phoenician, hand 1)
[...]◦ {B|P}T year (Phoenician, hand 1)
Belonging to ˀAddir-Baˁal (Phoenician, hand 2)
son of Pa-Bes (Phoenician, hand 2)
Ḥapimen (hand 3)
Moore, James D.. 'DAIK / SI O 2870, Fund-Nr. 17250a + O 2314, Fund-Nr. 17250a .' DEAPS. 26 Feb, 2026. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/11227. Accessed: 01 Jul, 2026.