Legal document: BL OR 5542.2
Legal document BL OR 5542.2Description
Legal document. Fragment (bottom only). Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli. Dating: Uncertain, but it has to be a year in which 2 Elul fell on a Thursday between 1066–1108 CE (the years when Hillel b. ʿEli was active). Someone makes a declaration in favor of a certain Abū Yaʿqūb. Other witnesses (whose names are also written in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli): Shelomo b. Yosef Av ha-Kohen and Avraham b. Shemaʿya. The validation (qiyyum) is signed by Ṣedaqa b. David ha-Kohen and Yiṣḥaq b. Elʿazar. (Information from Goitein's index card.)