Legal document: T-S 12.118

Legal document T-S 12.118

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T-S 12.118
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Ketubba (marriage contract) fragment that begins with the clause setting forth the wife’s obligations (to serve, etc.) and concludes with a dowry list. A minimum marriage gift of twenty-five gold dinars is stipulated, and the document contains a Hebrew clause stating that the husband will not be obligated to pay the marriage gift unless he divorces his wife willfully and she is not guilty of misconduct. (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 347-49) EMS

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Mordechai Akiva Friedman, Jewish Marriage in Palestine: A Cairo Geniza Study (Tel Aviv University, Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, 1980), vol. 2 (The Ketubba Texts).
  1. [...] .ת[..]ן [...]
  2. [...]פלחא ומשמשא ומוקרא ומיקרא [י]תה כהלכת [...]
  3. [... חמ]שה ועשרים כמנהג קהלא ושארה אוספה לשם מה[ר ...]
  4. [... לא יתח]ייב בשלומו אלא אם גרש ברצונו בלא ערות [דבר...]
  5. [... מבי]ת אבהתה זוג קדשין דהב מוכלל וו עזקין ג דהב וג[...]
  6. [...] צאמת דנ ל חבתין לולו באכרץ דנ י כוז כסף דנ וט כרדאב דנ[...]
  7. [...ע]צאבה מני מודהב דנ י עצאבה מני מודהב דנ ח מכלפ[ה...]
  8. [...].בור דנ ה מנשפה ומיזר דנ ה מכתומתין עצבי דנ לו [...]
  9. [ ] ל... דנ.[...]
Mordechai Akiva Friedman, Jewish Marriage in Palestine: A Cairo Geniza Study (Tel Aviv University, Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, 1980), vol. 2 (The Ketubba Texts).
  1. …
  2. [... she will] serve, attend, honor, and esteem [h]im, in the manner  [...]  
  3. [...] twenty-[fi]ve, according to the practice of the congregation, and the remainder he added for moha[r ... ]  
  4. [... He will not be obligated for its payment unless he divorces willfully, without (her being guilty of) miscon[duct ...] 
  5. [... from the hou]se of her fathers: a pair of golden rings crowned (with pearls) and six rings, three gold and three [silver ...]
  6. [...] plain—30 din., two pearl beads in earrings—10 din., a silver—15  din., a turn-table(?)—[X] din. [...]  
  7. [...] a gilded white-grey [he]adband—10 din., a gilded white-grey headband—8 din., a coat made of different materials—[...]
  8. [...]—5 din., a bathrobe and a wrap—5 din., 2 ʿaṣabī makhtūmas—36 (?) din., [...]
  9. [...]—din. [...]

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