Summary
'Un ostracon arameen d'Elephantine,' text discovered by Charles Clermont-Ganneau
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Extract
Ostracon Clermont-Ganneau 125(?): a case of ritual purity.
Helene Lozachmeur has just published "Un ostracon arameen d'Elephantine," discovered by Charles Clermont-Ganneau at Elephantine, Egypt ("Collection Clermont-Ganneau n 125?"), sometime back in 1907 and deposited in the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.(1) That collection numbers almost 300 texts but barely a dozen or so have been published, and all but one of these by Andre Dupont-Sommer in the two decades between 1944 and 1963, and not all with photograph or hand-copy (Clermont-Ganneau 16, 44, 70, 152, 167, 169, 175, 186, 204, 277).(2) With the demise of the famed Aramaist, responsibility for the proper publication of these documents passed to Maurice Sznycer. The newly published document from this collection appears, after a hiatus of some twenty years, in a volume of tribute to Prof. Sznycer. The file number of the document is somewhat in doubt and that accounts for the question mark in the title. The infra-red photo...
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