Brooklyn Museum 47.218.32
Life Estate of Usufruct
TAD B.3.07
Metadata
- Collection
- Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA | Brook (Public)
- Genres
-
- Legal (Content)
- Contract
- usufruct
- deed
- conveyance
- Language
- Aramaic
- Script
- Aramaic
- Find Type
- Unprovenanced: Explorer Aquisition
- Acquired
- Charles Wilbour [1893]
- Created by
- James D. Moore
- Material
- papyrus
- Text Direction Side 1
- perpendicular (โ) to the material's lines
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-01-18
- Date (Composition in text)
- Babylonian 8.iv Dar 3 [Persian, 5th cent. BCE]
- Date (Other date in text)
- Egyptian 8.viii Dar 3 [Persian, 5th cent. BCE]
- Date (Metadata)
- Gregorian 11.07.-420 [Persian, 5th cent. BCE]
- References
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- Lepper, Verena M. et al. . ERC 308121.
- Porten, Bezalel and Yardeni, Ada 1986. TAD B.03.07.
โLocalizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,โ n.d. TBA.
Porten, Bezalel, and Ada Yardeni. Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt. 4 vols. Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1986.
Textual Notes
erasure at start: Pharmuthi, that is d[ay]
Text and Translation
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James Moore
James Moore
On the 8th of Pharmuthi, that is the 8th d[a]y of Tammuz, year 3 of King Darius, then
[in Elephantine] the [fort]ress, I, Anani son of Azariah, a servitor of YHW the God, say to Jeh(o)ishma
by name, my child whose mother is Tam[et] my wife, saying: I, Anani, g[av]e you one house, built,
containing beams, (its) l[ength] being seven, that is 3[+4](=7), cubits by the measuring rod [by six; and half the courtyard]
(which) they call (in) Egyptian [the hโyt; and half the stairway]. These are the boun[da]ries of [th]at house: below i[t] is
the house of Anani son of Azariah [...] ... between them; a[bo]ve it is
the treasury of the king; west [of it the house of Shatibara adjoins i]t, east of it is (ERASURE: the house of) the
house of Hฬฃor, a servant of Kh[num the god. I gave it to yo]u. You, Jehoishma my daughter,
have right to [this] hous[e, who]se boundaries are written in [t]h[is] document, below and a[bo]ve.
And yo[u] have right [to] ascend and to descend by th[at] stairway [of] my [h]ouse. And [that] courtyard [which is]
bet[w]een them, ^the^ bottom and th[at a]bove, between Pelatiah my son and [Jehoi]shma my daughterโ[half]
to Pelat[ia]h and half to [Je]h[oishma ...] ... I, Anani, [ga]ve you this hous[e]
and half the courtyard and half the stair[way. And] y^o^u [have right] to them to ascend above and descend
and to go out outside. I, Anani, gave you these houses in affection.
I, Anani, (14) shall ^not^ be able (15) to reclaim (them) from you. And I shall not be able to say: โMy soul desired (them). I shall reclaim (them) from you.โ
^Whoever^ shall stand up against you to evict you from the ho^u^ses which I wrote and ga[ve you shall give to Jehoishma]
my daughter a penalty of silver, 10 karsh [by the stone(-weight)s of the king, silver 2 q(uarters)/zuz to the ten/1 karsh, without suit].
If Jehoishma die at the age of [100] y[ears ...]
[]...] ... will be ... [...]
... Hosha[iah ...]
[...]yty word(?)
[...]tm[t] he
[โฆ]โธขyahโธฃ son of [โฆ]
Moore, James D.. 'Brooklyn Museum 47.218.32.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/11905. Accessed: 20 Jan, 2026.