The Elephantine Papyri and Ostraca consist of thousands of documents from the Egyptian border fortresses of Elephantine and Aswan, which yielded hundreds...
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Aramaic documents of the Elephantine Papyri and Ostraca is the Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt. Elephantine, or what Ancient Egyptians...
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Sanballat the Horonite (section Elephantine papyri)
century BC. He and his family are mentioned in the contemporary Elephantine papyri and ostraca. In Hebrew the name is Sanḇallaṭ (Hebrew: סַנְבַלַּט). Eberhard...
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Pompeii and Herculaneum Ercolano Dunhuang manuscripts, similar cache of ancient religious and secular documents Elephantine papyri and ostraca, similar...
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Imperial Aramaic (section Name and classification)
those terms continue to be used differently by scholars. The Elephantine papyri and ostraca, as well as other Egyptian texts, are the largest group of extant...
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Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt (category Egyptian papyri in Aramaic)
Saqqarah papyri and most of the Clermont-Ganneau ostraca. It is the standard reference textbook for the Aramaic Elephantine papyri and ostraca, as well...
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Yahwism (category Religion in ancient Israel and Judah)
Monolatry Monotheism Origins of Judaism Two House theology Elephantine papyri and ostraca A possible candidate for an earlier occurrence of the name "Yahweh"...
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scientists. Elephantine papyri and ostraca EpiDoc Epigraphy Greek Magical Papyri Leiden Conventions Magdalen papyrus Nag Hammadi library Oxyrhynchus Papyri Palaeography...
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Passover (section Origins and theories)
in the Elephantine papyri and ostraca in an Imperial Aramaic papyrus letter from the 5th century BCE from Elephantine, Egypt. The slaughter of the lambs...
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literature, and notes that Bethel is mentioned, but with no details, in the Elephantine papyri and ostraca and the Hermopolis Aramaic papyri. Those papyri also...
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History of the Jews in Egypt (category Jews and Judaism in Egypt)
Egyptian Jews were living in Cairo. In the Elephantine papyri and ostraca, caches of legal documents and letters written in Aramaic amply document the...
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Second Temple period (category Jews and Judaism in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire)
Hellenistic period. Elephantine's Jewish community has adopted Aramaic, and it was the main language used in the Elephantine papyri and ostraca. Jesus, a native...
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ancient Phoenicians, Hebrews and Arameans. Semitic inscriptions may occur on stone slabs, pottery ostraca, ornaments, and range from simple names to full...
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Dunhuang manuscripts (section Languages and scripts)
ancient religious and secular documents Dunhuang Manichaean texts Elephantine papyri and ostraca, similar cache of ancient religious and secular documents...
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Afghan Geniza (category Jews and Judaism in Afghanistan)
religious and secular documents Dunhuang manuscripts, similar cache of ancient religious and secular documents Elephantine papyri and ostraca Herculaneum...
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Hama (section Persian, Hellenistic and Roman history)
large corpus of materials in Imperial Aramaic known as the Elephantine papyri and ostraca. The few Biblical reports state that Hamath was the capital...
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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...
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Philo (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
Translation, and Commentary. Chico, CA: Scholars Press. ISBN 9780891304722. Land of Onias Cairo Geniza Elephantine papyri and ostraca "Philo" is the...
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Tel Arad probably referring to the Temple at Jerusalem. Elephantine papyri, ancient Jewish papyri dating to the 5th century BC, name three persons mentioned...
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(CIS II 141) KAI 270: Dream ostracon (CIS II 137) KAI 271: Elephantine papyri and ostraca (CIS II 138) KAI 272: Ankh-Hapy stele (CIS II 142) KAI 273:...
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Tetragrammaton (redirect from Hebrew Word 3068 and Hebrew Word 3069)
Troyer says that YHW or YHH, and also YH, are attested in the fifth and fourth-century BCE papyri from Elephantine and Wadi Daliyeh: "In both collections...
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Julius Euting (section Canaanite and Aramaic epigraphy)
Dream ostracon and the Strasbourg Aramaic papyrus (TADAE A4.5 and D7.17), amongst the first known of the Elephantine papyri and ostraca, the Wilmanns Neopunic...
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el-Ahmar El Hiba Elkab El-Kurru El Lahun Elephant (pharaoh) Elephantine Elephantine papyri and ostraca Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt family...
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Story of Ahikar (category Egyptian papyri in Aramaic)
Aramaic from the fifth century BCE on papyri from Elephantine, Egypt, that circulated widely in the Middle and the Near East. It has been characterised...
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Ramesses XI. Narrative tales and stories are most often found on papyri, but partial and sometimes complete texts are found on ostraca. For example, Sinuhe is...
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witnessing to this form of Aramaic come from Egypt, Elephantine in particular (see: Elephantine papyri). Of them, the best known is the Wisdom of Ahiqar...
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discovered in the early twentieth century on the Egyptian island of Elephantine, near the First Cataract of the Nile. Waluburg probably was taught her...
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Walter E. H. Cockle (section Early life and family)
Coptus, Elephantine, Fayum, Hermopolis Magna, Leucos Limen, the Colossi of Memnon, Mons Claudianus, Myos Hormos, the Nile, Oasis, Ostraca, Oxyrhynchus...
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Ptolemaic Kingdom (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
Hellenistic era, due to the discovery of a wealth of papyri and ostraca written in Koine Greek and Egyptian. In 332 BC, Alexander the Great, King of Macedon...
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