ثيقة شرعيّة: ENA 4020.35

الوصف

Marriage contract (ketubba). On parchment. Location: New Cairo. Dated: [Thursday,] 15 Kislev 1461 Seleucid, which is 17 November 1149 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Groom: Merayot b. Ṣadaqa. Bride: ʿAmāʾim bt. Tiqva. (The only name preserved on recto is Tiqva; the rest come from the record on verso.) On verso there is a legal record (written after the divorce) certifying that ʿAmāʾim has received the 5 dinars of the delayed marriage payment “specified in this ketubba.” This interpretation is tentative owing to the state of the document and the fact that Goitein seems to have understood the payment as maintenance for nursing/rearing a child for 5 months. (But note also that the poor state of the previous PGP transcription suggests that the fragment was even more crumpled when Goitein examined it than it is now.) Also on verso, there are four undeciphered lines in Arabic script. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)