“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 4219, Fund-Nr. 36800
Röllig no. 43
Metadata
- Collection
- DAIK, Elephantine Storehouse | DAIK-Eleph
- Keywords
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- missive
- receipt
- Script
- Aramaic
- Find Type
- Excavation
- Locus
- see doc_num
- Acquired
- DAIK [1987–1992]
- Material
- clay | sherd (for ostracon)
- 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
מל<כ><<ה>>א: This emendation is a guess based on context. Perhaps the writer was copying from an oral source, in which case ḥ may have been misheard as ḵ.
פטחנמ? looks like פטחנס. Reading מ follows Röllig which seem more reasonable, although it does not resemble the stroke pattern?
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
The boat of Ḥapîû son of
Peṭeḥons is gi⸢v⸣en (as) the boat of
the ki⸢n⸣g
Moore, James D.. 'DAIK / SI O 4219, Fund-Nr. 36800.' DEAPS. 26 Feb, 2026. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/11836. Accessed: 01 Jul, 2026.