Legal document: T-S 12.451

Legal document T-S 12.451

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T-S 12.451
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Ketubba (marriage contract) fragment, clearly in the Palestinian tradition. Dated 1034 CE (Elul 4794 AM). The groom is Yefet b. Avraham.

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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. על שמה דב[ריי]ן
  2. בששי בשבת בירח אלול בתלת עשר יומין בה ב[שנת ...]
  3. אלפין ושבע מאוון ותשעין וארבע שנין לביריתה ד[עלמה...]
  4. [..]ה אנה יפת בן אברהם אמרת מן דעתי ומן רע[ותי ...לא]
  5. [משד]ל ולא רווי חמר אלא בהון שלם ובדעה שלמה למ[סב...]
  6. [...] ומפרנס ומלבש ומוקר ומיקר ית נטר ב[ת ...]
  7. [... למה]ווי פלחה ומשמשה ומיקרה ומ[וקרה ...]
  8. [...ד]י צבא ובעא וכן פסקו[ן ...]
  9. [...] דינרין ואשתיר ע[לוי ...]
  10. [... מ]ערקתין .. דינ[רין ...]
  11. [...]היקין די[נר ...]
  12. [...].לל[...]
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. By the name of our Cr[eator].  
  2. On the sixth of the week, in the month of Elul, thirteen days therein [... year four]  
  3. thousand, seven hundred, and ninety-four A.[M. ...]
  4. [...] "I, Japheth b. Abraham, declare intentionally, wil[lingly ... not]
  5. [enti]ced, nor intoxicated, rather with full faculties and complete will to m[arry...]  
  6. [...] and provide for, clothe, esteem and honor Naẓar dau[ghter of  ..." She accepted and agreed]  
  7. [... t]o serve, attend, honor, and [esteem ... She became his wife]
  8. [a]s he had desired and requested. They fixed [as the marriage payment ...] 
  9. [...] dinars, and there remain incumbent up[on him a debt of ... She brought in from the house of her fathers]  
  10. [...] two skullcaps—dina[rs ...]
  11. [...] two ...—di[nar ...]
  12. ... 

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