Two Aramaic Contracts without Dates: New Collations (C 11, 49)
Forty-five Aramaic contracts or fragments from 5th-century B. C. Egypt testify to the presence of a date at the beginning of that century. Two of the contracts lack dates and endorsements (Cowley 11 and 49). Repeated examination of C 11 (Bodleian Library) has resulted in the relocation of ten fragme...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1985
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Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 1985, Volume: 258, Pages: 41-52 |
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| Summary: | Forty-five Aramaic contracts or fragments from 5th-century B. C. Egypt testify to the presence of a date at the beginning of that century. Two of the contracts lack dates and endorsements (Cowley 11 and 49). Repeated examination of C 11 (Bodleian Library) has resulted in the relocation of ten fragments. Textually, this yields the name of the debtor ([Gema]rish ]b. A]ḥio; reduces the amount of the loan (3½ shekels) and interest (7 ḥallurs per month); and raises the date within the document (December 23, 487-January 21, 486 B. C.). Papyrologically, it demonstrates that the document lacked initial date and endorsement. R. Degen joined P. Berlin 23104 to C 49 to yield a 23-cm-wide text. However, the folding pattern requires a 29-cm width and demonstrates that the text lacked date and endorsement. Although the expression ytly ʿlyk remains difficult, the text was probably a receipt (nbz) or a cancellation of debt. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1356897 |
