Legal document: T-S 8J9.13

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Verso: Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. In the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen, who served as the muqaddam of Bilbays. Location: Bilbays. Dated: Adar II 1529 Seleucid = February/March 1218 CE. The fiancée is a 9-year-old orphan girl named Sutayt. The document notes that she will “enter the huppa in the year 1523 [an error for 1533 Seleucid = 1221 CE?], three years from the date of [...].” For the document on recto, which relates to the same case, see separate record (PGPID 2222). See also Moss. VII,124.1 (PGPID 27011), probably another contract related to the same couple. (Information in part from Eve Krakowski, “Female adolescence in the Cairo Geniza documents,” PhD diss., The University of Chicago, 2012, 84, 251). Published by Ashur, Engagement Documents, MA thesis, 116–20.