Padua Aramaic papyri

[1] They were first published in 1936 by Luigi Gaudenzio in a group of unrelated documents; they first received scholarly attention after their 1960 publication by Edda Bresciani.

[2] They are currently in the Musei Civici di Padova, and are also known as TSSI II 28 and TAD A3.3-3.4.

This, if it is not absolutely decisive for affirming that Elephantine is also the place of discovery, nevertheless makes it probable.

In Papyrus II is mentioned a ......, which therefore bears an Egyptian proper name, frequent and typical of Elephantine where Khnum was the local god.

On this basis, I would propose, naturally without absolute certainty, Elephantine, as the possible common place of origin of the papyri.