Imposition of a Judicial Oath
401 BCE
On the 18th of Phaophi, year four of Artaxerxes the king in Elephantine the fortress, Malchiah son of Jashobiah, an Aramean, hereditary-property-holder in Elephantine the fortress of the detachment of Nabukudu[rri], said [to Ar]tafrada son of A[rvastah] mara of the detachment of Marya as follows:
[Y]ou com[plained against me] in Np’:
“Yo[u brok]e…
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