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>Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt Vol. 4 - Ostraca and Assorted Inscriptions
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Publisher:
Collaborators:
  • Department of the History of the Jewish People, Hebrew University
Year:
1999
Catalog number :
45-800272
ISBN:
965-350-089-9
Language:
Weight:
1600 gr.
Cover:
Paperback

Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt Vol. 4 - Ostraca and Assorted Inscriptions

Newly copied, edited and translated into Hebrew and English

Synopsis
This volume continues the series Textbook of Aramaic Documents (TAD) begun with vol. 1, Letters (1986), vol. 2, Contracts (1989), and vol.3 Literature, Accounts, Lists. 
The standard set by previous volumes is maintained here, and the authors are to be congratulated for producing an edition that, without exaggeration, deserves to be called definitive. Published in 1999, vol. 4 is subtitled Ostraca and Assorted Inscriptions.

It is the biggest
 of the four volumes with 24 chapters, divided as follows: D1-5 Papyrus fragments; D6 Leather fragments; D7-11 Ceramic Inscriptions; D8 Accounts; D9 Lists; D10 Abecedaries; D11 Jars; D12 Stone Plaques; D13 Wooden Plaques; D14 Seals, Bullae, Stamps; D15 Libation Bowls; D16 Statuettes; D17 Dedication stone; D18-21 Funerary Inscriptions; D22 Graffiti; D23 Sheikh Fadl Cave inscription; D24 Aramaica Dubiosa.There are, of course, 
indices, bibliography and a map along with all the features described in the notice on volume 3.