Attested ArtifactA-ELE-D49

Elephantine documentary papyrus, TAD D.4.9

Papyrus fragment · Elephantine, Egypt · c. 500–400 BCE

𐡉𐡄𐡅

Imperial Aramaic letters (Unicode, schematic)YHW · recto line 1 [...] בית יהו

Evidence status: Attested secure_catalog_transcription
Type: Papyrus fragment
Place: Elephantine, Egypt
island (approx. ±1 km)
Date: c. 500–400 BCE
5th century BCE approximate corpus assignment

1000 BCE500 BCE1 CE500 CE
Language: Imperial Aramaic
Script: Aramaic
Editorial note: Pap. Berlin P.13461A–P.13448–15; YHW spelled in explicit line.

Attestations

1 reading

Reading	Form	Locus	Status	Vowels observed
𐡉𐡄𐡅יהו YHW	YHW	recto line 1 [...] בית יהו	Museum transcription	none marked

AS-ELED49: Recorded orthography, not proof of Ya-hu pronunciation.

Sources

Pap. Berlin P. 13461A–P. 13448–15 (TAD D.4.9)
Texts & Scripts from Elephantine · Staatliche Museen zu Berlin · n.d.
High reliability
R04·Museum editionOpen source

Forms attested here

YHW יהו Attested

Also from Elephantine

Elephantine temple petition, TAD A.4.7c. 420–400 BCE Elephantine temple assessment, TAD C.3.15c. 500–400 BCE

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