Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, Volume 1: 401 Commodity Chits

Bezalel Porten; Ada Yardeni

Published by Penn State University Press 2014

Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, Volume 1

401 Commodity Chits

Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575068985

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Some 340 Aramaic ostraca of the Persian and Hellenistic periods have been excavated at 32 sites in Israel, from Yokneam in the north to Eilat in the south, with Arad and Beersheba being the main contributory sites. By far, however, the largest cache of texts is what has come to be known as “the Idumean ostraca”. These did not come from formal excavations but began to appear on the antiquities market in 1991. Since then, some 2,000 ostraca have reached 9 museums and libraries and 21 private collections. Of these, the majority are still not formally published, and in this volume (and those to follow), Bezalel Porten undertakes to provide a comprehensive edition of all these texts, in many cases as an editio princeps. Porten, with the expert epigraphic assistance of Ada Yardeni and hand-copies by her as well, here provides the first volume of texts, organized by “dossier” based on the primary personage cited in the text. Color photographs (where available), ceramic descriptions, hand-copies, transcription, translation, and commentary are provided for each text, along with figures and tables, and introductions and summaries of each dossier. An included CD contains a catalogue of all the texts and three color key-word-in-context concordances, for words, personal names, and months for the entire corpus. This publication will become the primary resource for information on these texts.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Comparative List of Entries Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Supplementary Material on CD Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Abbreviations and Select Bibliography Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Explanation of Typographic Conventions Publicly Available Download PDF	xxii
Grain Equivalencies Publicly Available Download PDF	xxiii
Terminology of Ceramic Descriptions Publicly Available Download PDF	xxiv
Terminology of Palaeographic Descriptions Publicly Available Download PDF	xxv
Numeration Legend Publicly Available Download PDF	xxv
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A1–10 Commodity Chits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
A7–10 Dossiers of Prominent Individuals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 528
Keywords: Idumean ostraca; commodity chits; payment orders; accounts; workers' texts; name lists; jar inscriptions; letters; land descriptions; no text ostraca; Persian empire; Idumea; Aramaic; Makkedah

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Published: September 4, 2014
ISBN: 9781575068985