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Title: Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt
Author(s): LIPÍNSKI, E.
Journal: Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica
Volume: 25    Date: 1994   
Pages: 61-68
DOI: 10.2143/OLP.25.0.583460

Abstract :
The third volume of the Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt (TAD), newly copied, edited, and translated into English and Hebrew by B. Porten and A. Yardeni, contains literary and historical texts, accounts, and lists. From a literary point of view, the two major pieces of this collection are the Words of Ahiqar (C1.1) and the Aramaic version of the Bisitun Inscription of Darius the Great (C2.1). The verso of the Bisitun inscription, already reedited by J.C. Greenfield and B. Porten in the Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum, contains several columns of accounts (C3.13), while the Ahiqar words are written over erased text, a multicolumn Customs Account deciphered by Ada Yardeni and published here for the first time (C3.7).

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