Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, volume 2 : : Dossiers 11-50: 263 Commodity Chits / / Ada Yardeni, Bezalel Porten.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Porten, Bezalel,; Yardeni, Ada,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (375 p.)

Since 1991, some 2,000 Aramaic ostraca deriving from the south of Israel have appeared on the antiquities market and are now scattered in 9 museums and libraries and 21 private collections. Of these, the majority are still not formally published, and in this second volume in the series, Bezalel Porten continues the publication of this important corpus of 4th century B.C.E. economic texts. With the expert epigraphic assistance of Ada Yardeni and hand-copies by her as well, Porten here provides the second 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 tables of seven grain dossiers. This publication will become the primary resource for information on these texts, which provide insight into the economic, social, and religious lives of Idumeans in the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Select Bibliography -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Explanation of Typographic Conventions -- Grain Equivalencies -- Numeration Legend -- Tables -- Texts -- A11-50 Commodity Chits -- A11-14 Betweeen 25 and 20 Entries (between 15 and 12 chits) -- A15-25 Between 19 and 11 entries (between 11 and 2 chits) -- A26-40 Between 11/12 and 8 entries (between 9 and 4 chits) -- A41-50 Between 7 and 4 entries (between 6 and 3 chits) -- Addenda