“Localizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,” n.d. TBA.
Ost. Cairo EM JdE 43464 a
TAD D.07.14 = Ber P. 11364 (deaccessioned)
Metadata
- Collection
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt | EM (Public)
- Keyword
-
- Missive
- Language
- Aramaic
- Script
- Aramaic
- Find Type
- Excavation
- Acquired
- Otto Rubensohn and Fredriech Zucker [1906–1907]
- Material
- clay | sherd (for ostracon)
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-06-28
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.
Textual Notes
TAD variants. cc 1:
[... י]ה
cc 2:
{ר לי |רת לכ}
cc 4:
[...]◦א |
{ב|ק}
cc 5:
[...]ו
cv 3:
מ[...]
cv 4:
[... או]
cv 5:
הו[?]
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
[...]H, saying, “sen[-d]
[...]◦ for my tunic. Also
[... Ye]⸢d⸣anyah shall leave
[...]ˀ with her/him/it ⸢Q⸣◦-
[...]◦W. Also th⸢read⸣(-)
[...] for my tunic.
Also, say to[ ...]
-H, saying, show me[...]
and I shall give you M◦[...]
I/you/she said, if grown/the majority of[ ...]
a little {se[nd |it is }...]
Moore, James D.. 'Ost. Cairo EM JdE 43464 a.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/11842. Accessed: 29 Jun, 2026.