Legal document: T-S NS J484

Description

Deed of manumission of a female slave. Location: New Cairo. Dated: Monday, 5 Kislev 14[.]8 Seleucid, perhaps 14[7]8 Seleucid = 1166/67 CE or one of the adjacent decades, as the witness Aharon b. Yaʿaqov signed T-S Ar.29.145 (PGPID 39225) in 1170 CE. The owner of the enslaved woman is named Menashshe b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. The enslaved woman's name starts with תוכ or תומ. Witnesses: Avraham b. ʿAmram and Aharon b. Yaʿaqov ha-Melammed ha-Levi. On verso there is an attestation that she received it before witnesses (but this attestation is not itself signed). There are also several more lines of unidentified Hebrew script on verso. (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 547 and from Goitein's index cards).