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===Other=== <gallery widths="140px" heights="140px" perrow="4"> File:Aramaic translation of the behistun inscripton.png|The [[Behistun papyrus]], an Aramaic translation of the [[Behistun inscription]] on Papyrus, 520 BCE File:Elephantine Temple reconstruction request.gif|Letter from the Elephantine Papyri, a collection of 5th century BCE writings of the Jewish community at Elephantine in Egypt. Authors are Yedoniah and his colleagues the priests and it is addressed to Bagoas, governor of Judah. The letter is a request for the rebuilding of a Jewish temple at Elephantine, which had been destroyed by Egyptian pagans. The letter is dated year 17 of king Darius (II) under the rule of the satrap of Egypt Arsames, which corresponds to 407 BCE. From [[Eduard Sachau]]'s 1907 publication File:Papyrus. Hieratischer Papyrus. No. X. XI. Papyrusfragmente in Phoenicischer Cursivschrift. (jetzt im K. Museum zu Berlin.) (NYPL b14291191-44353).jpg|Phoenician-Aramaic papyrus CIS II 149 and Cowley 69; Cowley suggested they came from Elephantine. File:Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum CIS II 137-139 (cropped).jpg|Greville Chester Aramaic ostraca (CIS II 138β139) and Dream Ostracon (CIS II 137) </gallery>
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