“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 4456, Fund-Nr. 37800
Röllig no. 38
Metadata
- Collection
- DAIK, Elephantine Storehouse | DAIK-Eleph
- Keywords
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- Name List
- Vessel Label
- Script
- Aramaic
- 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
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
Line 3: Röllig admits that the name is difficult. He prefers the gentilic כנני because the name ends in בל, i.e. Baˁal. The first letter and last letter of the gentilic are clear. Second letter is almost certainly not a נ because it has an articulated head made of at least two strokes and one penlift. ס is the most likely option. The third letter of the gentilic looks like a standard פ, to me. The first three letters of the name are difficult. The first letter could be ה, ג, or פ. Röllig appears to have mistaking the vertical stroke of the second letter as a ל; it is an א. The third letter appears to be a י or ז. It is unlikely that it should be read with the following stroke and construed as a צ because of the spacing. Röllig’s ינ seems plausible and is followed here.
Line 4: I cannot confirm Röllig’s reading.
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
Nathan son of [...]
ˁAzarî son of H◦[...]
PˀYNBL a Caspian
⸢Q⸣◦◦◦◦◦
...{HM | H◦◦}
Moore, James D.. 'DAIK / SI O 4456, Fund-Nr. 37800.' DEAPS. 26 Feb, 2026. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/11831. Accessed: 01 Jul, 2026.