Brooklyn Museum 47.218.12
TAD B.6.1 Kraeling 14
Metadata
- Collection
- Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA | Brook (Public)
- Genres
-
- Legal (Content)
- Contract
- wifehood
- [סכר אנתו] (Ancient)
- 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 (⟂) to the material's lines
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-01-18
- Date (Metadata)
- Gregorian -525 to -399 [Persian, 5th cent. BCE]
- Date (Composition in text)
- Babylonian 8.ii [?] [Persian, 5th cent. BCE]
- Date (Other date in text)
- Egyptian 20.v [Persian, 5th cent. BCE]
- References
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- Kraeling, Emil Gottlieb Heinrich 1953. Kraeling no. 14.
- Lepper, Verena M. et al. . erc 308119.
- Porten, Bezalel and Yardeni, Ada 1986. TAD B.6.01.
General Notes
four fragments arranged on a platic plate.
Kraeling, Emil Gottlieb Heinrich. The Brooklyn Museum (New York) Aramaic Papyri: New Documents of the 5th Century B.C. from the Jewish Colony at Elephantine. [Reprint]. New York: Yale University Press, 1953.
“Localizing 4,000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt. ERC Grant ID: 637692,” n.d. TBA.
Porten, Bezalel, and Ada Yardeni. Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt. 4 vols. Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1986.
Textual Notes
r. 1: the traces of the first number do not look like 1. Perhaps read 20, or less likely 10, instead? I do not know what this would mean for the chronology.
r. [7]-8: see kraeling no. 7 = TAD B.3.08 = 47.218.150 ln. 8. Following Kraeling, most read צבע as an adj. "wet, dyed" cf. Akk. ṣibū. Kraeling admits that the phrase could be read "finger of the hands", but cannot figure out its meaning with פשכ "handbreadth-measurement" following. I wonder if it refers to "finger worked" or embroidered. Perhaps also these are ornate sleaves or gloves?
Text and Translation
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James Moore
James Moore
On the [8]th of Iyyar, (that) is day 20 of Tybi, year [# RN the king. (Then) said PN son PN,]
an Aramean of Fort Elephantine belonging to the degal-unit of ˀIddinnabû, to [◦◦]L[... son of ...]
saying: I have come to you (m.s.) in your (m.s.) house and ⸢as⸣[ked of you for (title) PN your (m.s.) (relation) for wifehood, and you gave her to me. She is my wife,]
and I am her husband, from this day until eterni[ty. And I gave you (m.s.) a mohar ... silver, 1 karš according to the stones of]
the king, silver(-rate): 2 q(uarters to [1] kar[š ...]
silver, [#] ka[rš ...]
[... striped (garment), ]
[hand-dyed/embroidered,] 1 [pšk-handbreadth] (whereby) 1 edge(-measurement) equals (in) silv[er] 1 [ka]rš ◦[...]
[... stri]ped (garment), han[d]-dyed/embroid[ered ...]
Moore, James D.. 'Brooklyn Museum 47.218.12.' DEAPS. 12 Dec, 2025. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/12297. Accessed: 20 Jan, 2026.