Legal document: T-S NS 246.28
Legal document T-S NS 246.28What's in the PGP
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Legal document. Formula of a Bill of manumission of a slave girl. Recto: Recto: A formula writ (מודע, ‘notification’) for invalidating the manumission of a minor female slave (בת שפחה כנענית). Verso: a specimen deed of manumission, with placeholder names and dates, from Cairo. Verso published by: Friedman, Master and Slave Girl: Two Geniza Documents, Gratz College Annual of Jewish Studies, p. 61-63 (under the number T-S K27.45)
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Translator: Friedman, Mordechai Akiva (in English)
T-S NS 246.28 1r
T-S NS 246.28 1v
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Testimony about what took place in our presence, we the witnesses signed
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below on this deed of disclaimer: A son of B appeared before us
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and declared before us, "My masters! Know that I am deposing
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a disclaimer before you that C daughter of D, my wife, possesses
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{the daughter }of a gentile slave girl, a minor who grew up in our house.
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And she wants to free her and emancipate her. But I do not want and do not desire to free [her].
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Now when she pressed me with her words, I had to mislead her
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and to act according to her wishes and to mislead the daughter of her slave girl, whose name is
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X, (to think) that I am making her a free woman. But it is not my will nor
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my desire to free her nor to emancipate her. The deed
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of emancipation which I have written for her is void and is like a potsherd
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thrown in the street which is worthless and is not to be relied upon at all.
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And with this intention I have deposed my words before you. Write
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for me (a deed of) evidence." So we wrote for him this disclaimer and we signed (it) and gave (it) to h[im], for it to be in the possession
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of A son of B as evidence and as proof. Ratified, confirmed and valid.
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And this took place on the Xth day, such and such of the month Y.
