“Localizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,” n.d. TBA.
P. 10964
TAD D.07.55 Sachau ost. 81,1 taf. 68,1
Metadata
- Collection
- Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin, Germany | ÄMP (Public)
- Keywords
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- Legal (Content)
- Missive
- report
- Language
- Aramaic
- Script
- Aramaic
- Find Type
- Unprovenanced: Purchase
- Acquired
- Schmidt [≤ 1911]
- Material
- clay | sherd (for ostracon)
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-06-28
General Notes
According to Sachau p. 243, this was bought in Edfu.
The genre is unclear. That it is written CV only and is not a label suggests that comparison with Ptolemaic Greek and Demotic Genres should be considered.
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
1. [...].[...] יהב ואמר[ ...] 2 {{כתני זילי}} זׄילי כתני וחמרא ומשחׄ[א ...] 3 בר ישיב אזלת על חוׄ[...] 4 אמר לי עבדיׄ .[...]ל[...]
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
[...]◦[...] he [ga]ve and said[ ...]
[...] For to me (belongs) ⸢the⸣ tunic, and the wine, and [the] oi[l ...]
[...] son of Yašîb. I went to Ḥ◦[...]
[...]◦◦LY ⸢my⸣ se⸢rvant⸣ ◦[...]⸢L⸣[...]
Moore, James D.. 'P. 10964.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/12273. Accessed: 29 Jun, 2026.