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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.91

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.91
Publication Number TAD B.3.5; Kraeling 4

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery excavation or purchase
Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Wilbour, Charles Edwin
Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type papyrus

Text Basic Information

Script, Primary Aramaic, Imperial
Language, Primary Aramaic, Imperial

 

Text Content

Ancient Title ספר בי זי כתב ענניה לתמת אנתתה
Modern Title Bequest of Apartment to Wife
Text Types
  • documentary | contract
Summary of Content Ananiah gives his wife Tamut half a house
Gender Woman Man
Comment on Religion See comments on B.3.4.
Religion, further Judaism

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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1 On the 25th of Tishri, that is day 25 of the month of Epeiph, year 31 of Artaxerxes the king, said Ananiah
2son of Azariah, a servitor of YHW the God in Elephantine the fortress, to lady Tamet his wife, saying: I gave
3you half of the large room, and its chamber, of the house which I bought from ˀwbyl daughter of Shatibara and from Bagazushta,
4Caspians of Elephantine the fortress. I, Ananiah, gave it to you in love. Yours it is from this day
5forever and your children's, whom you bore me, after you. And behold the measurements of that house which I,
6Ananiah, gave you, Tamet, from half of the large room and its chamber was: from above to below,
711 (6) cubits (7) by the measuring rod; in width, cubits from east to west, 7 cubits 1 h(and) by the measuring rod ; Built is (the) lower house, new, containing beams and windows. And behold this is the boundaries of that house
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9which I gave you: above it the portion of mine, I, Ananiah, adjoins it; below it
10is the Temple of YHW the God and the street of the king is between them; east of it is the town/way of Khnum the god
11and the street of the king is between them; west of it the house of Shatibara, a Caspian, adjoins it. This share of
12the house who(se) measurements are written and whose boun?daries (are written above) — I, Ananiah, gave it to you in love. I shall not be able,
13I, Ananiah, to bring (suit) against you on account of it. Moreover, son of mine or daughter, brother or sister shall not be able
14to institute (suit) against you in the name of that house. And if I institute suit against you in the name of that house, I shall be obligated
15and I shall give you silver, 5 karsh, that is five, by the stone(-weight)s of the king, silver 2 q(uarters) to 1 karsh, without suit.
16And if another person institute against you suit, he shall give you silver, 20 karsh, and the house likewise is yours. But
17if you die at the age of 100 years, it is my children whom you bore me (that) have right to it after
18your death. And moreover, if I, Anani, die at the age of 100 years, it is Pilti and Jehoishma, all (told) 2, my children, (who)
19have right to my other portion, I, Anani. Another person — my mother or my father, brother or sister, or
20another (19) man — (20) shall not have right to the whole house, but (only) my children whom you bore me. And the person who shall reclaim
21my house after my death from Pilti and Jehoishma shall give them silver, 10 karsh by the stone(-weight)s of
22the king, silver 2 q(uarters) to 1 karsh, and my house is theirs likewise, without suit. Wrote Mauziah son of Nathan at the instruction of
23Ananiah son of Azariah the servitor. And the witnesses herein: (1st hand) Gemariah son of Mahseiah;
24(2nd hand) Hoshaiah son of Jathom; (3rd hand) Mithrasarah the Magian; (4th hand) Tata the Magian.
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vso 1(sealing) Document of a house which Ananiah wrote for Tamet his wife.
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
20035 man Ananiah son of Azariah ענניה בר עזריה / ענני Aramaic, Imperial

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
-434 October 30 BCE ;

 

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Literature

 

DatasetID 308122
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 89456
Author James D. Moore, Verena Lepper
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 308122 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.91), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: James D. Moore, Verena Lepper.