Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, Volume 4 / / Bezalel Porten, Ada Yardeni.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Porten, Bezalel,; Yardeni, Ada,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (570 p.) :; 377 color illustrations

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.

Table of 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)