Bequest of a House to a Daughter
459 BCE
On the 21st of Kislev, that is day 21 of Mesore, year 6 of Artaxerxes the king, Mahseiah son of Jedaniah, a Jew, hereditary-property-holder in Elephantine the fortress of the detachment of Haumadata, said to lady Mibtahiah his daughter, saying:
I gave you in my lifetime and at my death my house and my land.
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