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The Elephantine Papyri and Ostraca consist of thousands of documents from the Egyptian border fortresses of Elephantine and Aswan, which yielded hundreds of papyri and ostraca in hieratic and demotic Egyptian, Aramaic, Koine Greek, Latin and Coptic, spanning a period of 100 years in the 5th to 4th centuries BCE.
The collection does not include the Saqqarah papyri [a] and most of the Clermont-Ganneau ostraca. [b] [4] [5] It is the standard reference textbook for the Aramaic Elephantine papyri and ostraca, as well as other examples of Egyptian Aramaic, which together provide the primary extant examples of Imperial Aramaic worldwide. [6]
The Elephantine papyri and ostraca are caches of legal documents and letters written in Imperial Aramaic dating to sometime in the 5th century BC. [28] [29] These papyri document the presence of a community of Judean mercenaries and their families on Elephantine, starting in the 7th century BCE. The mercenaries guarded the frontier between ...
The Elephantine papyri and ostraca, as well as other Egyptian texts, are the largest group of extant records in the language, collected in the standard Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt. [1] Outside of Egypt, most texts are known from stone or pottery inscriptions spread across a wide geographic area. [1]
Three Ostraca from Arad (A) 3.43H: Arad Ostraca [17] 569C: Three Ostraca from Arad (B) 3.43i: Arad Ostraca [18] 569A: Three Ostraca from Arad (C) Elephantine papyri and ostraca: 3.46 [The Jedaniah Archive from Elephantine] The Passover Letter: 491 "The Passover Papyrus" 3.51 [The Jedaniah Archive from Elephantine] Request for Letter of ...
Pages in category "Egyptian papyri in Aramaic" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... Elephantine papyri and ostraca; H.
The Padua Aramaic papyri are a group of three Aramaic papyri thought to be from the 400s BCE, found in a collection of antiquities in the Italian city of Padua. The papyri are unprovenanced, but are thought to have been from Elephantine, which would make them the first Elephantine papyri and ostraca to have been discovered (although published ...
Articles relating to the island of Elephantine.It is an island on the Nile, forming part of the city of Aswan in Upper Egypt.The archaeological sites on the island were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979 along with other examples of Upper Egyptian architecture, including Abu Simbel and Philae.