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AIBL-CIS AI pap. 2–4 (RÉS 247+248)

TAD A.5.5 Elephantine (Maspero) ERC 308124 Clermont-Ganneau, RAO 6, 246–248 Cowley 80 Lidzbarski, Ephem. ii, 219 Ungnad 90 Porten, Archive, 35.

Metadata

Collection
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, France | AIBL (Public)
Genres
  • military correspondence
  • Decree ?
  • Letter
Language
Aramaic
Script
Aramaic
Find Type
Excavation
Locus
Khnum Temple
Acquired
Gaston Maspero [1902]
Material
papyrus
Created by
James D. Moore
Updated by
James D. Moore, 2026-01-18
Date (Composition)
Gregorian -525 to -399 [Persian, 5th cent. BCE]
References
  • Académie des inscriptions & belles -lettres (France ) Commission du Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum, Jean-Baptiste Chabot and University of Michigan 1900. RÉS 247 + RÉS 248 (RES 247 + RES 248).
  • Lepper, Verena M. et al. . ERC 308124.
  • Porten, Bezalel and Yardeni, Ada 1986. TAD A.5.5.

Académie des inscriptions & belles -lettres (France ) Commission du Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum, Jean-Baptiste Chabot. Répertoire d’épigraphie sémitique. Vol. 8. Imprimerie nationale, 1900. http://archive.org/details/rpertoiredpigra00gangoog.
“Localizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,” n.d. TBA.
Porten, Bezalel, and Ada Yardeni. Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt. 4 vols. Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1986.
Textual Notes
Clermont-Ganneau, RAO 6, 246–248 Cowley 80 Lidzbarski, Ephem. ii, 219 Porten, Archive, 35. Ungnad 90

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James Moore

side: recto line: 01
side: recto line: 02
side: recto line: 03
side: recto line: 04
side: recto line: 05
side: recto line: 06
side: recto line: 07
side: recto line: 08
side: recto line: 09
side: recto line: 10
side: verso line: 01
side: verso line: 02
side: verso line: 03

James Moore

You (m.p.) [… Now, PN]
administrator of Thebes says thus: [...] the ⸢tr⸣oop [...]
to kill [....] Moreover, killed [...] they/them […
⸢K⸣[…]
[…]
they said [◦◦ and ]they came to Pnh to B[...]
their DGL-unit and the chiefs of their century-units [...]
is/were destroyed/his sword. There is no troop [...]
this troop had been holding-possession-status [...]
even now [that] fortress lives/is the tro[op ....]
Now, thus say⸢s⸣ Mithradates: ◦[...]
you judges say to P◦[...]
let him give to the rebels.
Moore, James D.. 'AIBL-CIS AI pap. 2–4 (RÉS 247+248).' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/12404. Accessed: 19 Jan, 2026.