Textbook of Aramaic ostraca from Idumea. Volume 4, Dossiers B-G: 375 ostraca : including 54 payment orders (B), 77 acounts (C), 74 workers texts (D), 62 names lists (E), 85 jar inscriptions (F), 23 letters (G) / Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni ; with the assistance of Matt Kletzing ; and drawings scanned by Eugen Han.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Porten, Bezalel, author.

Yardeni, Ada, author.

Contributor:

Kletzing, Matt, contributor.

Han, Eugen, illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aramaic language--Texts.

Aramaic language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (571 pages)

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : Eisenbrauns, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Since the early 1990s, about two thousand Idumean Aramaic ostraca have found their way onto the antiquities market and are now scattered across a number of museums, libraries, and private collections. This multivolume textbook classifies these ostraca according to subject matter and brings them together into a single publication. With this fourth installment, Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni continue their comprehensive edition of Aramaic ostraca from Idumea. Volumes 1-3 published and cataloged 255 Personal Name Dossiers containing 1,152 texts. Volume 4 contains 377 texts divided into six dossiers, including 54 payment orders, 77 accounts, 74 workers texts, 62 names, 87 jar inscriptions, and 23 letters. The payment orders document officially authorized transfers of goods, while the accounts show how those goods were inventoried. The workers texts illustrate the distribution and supply of laborers, the name lists show people as individuals, and the jar inscriptions track vessels in motion. Color photographs, ceramic descriptions, hand-copies, transcriptions, translations, and commentaries are provided for the texts, along with figures and tables, and introductions and summaries of each dossier.A unique source for the onomastics and social and economic history of fourth-century Idumea--and, by extension, of Judah--this multivolume work will become the primary resource for information on these texts.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Select Bibliography

Introduction

Explanation of Typographic Conventions

Grain Equivalencies

Terminology of Ceramic Descriptions

Numeration Legend

Missing Photos and Drawings

Texts

B1.1-4.7 Payment Orders and Instructions Dossier (54 Texts, Table 3)

C1.1-9.9 Accounts Dossier (77 Texts, Tables C1-5)

D1.1-9.7 Workers Texts Dossier (74 Texts, Tables D1-5)

E1.1-5.2 Names Dossier (62 Texts, Tables E 1-5)

F1.1-5.12 Jar Inscriptions Dossier (85 Texts, Table F 1-4)

G1.1-5.1 Letters Dossier (23 Texts, Table G 1-4)

Comparative List of Entries Listed by ISAP Number (B-G)

Comparative List of Entries Listed by TAO Number (B-G)

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781646021871

1646021878

OCLC:

1266227813