Legal Order Forbidding a Couple to Meet

On the day that Tabat-Ishar, daughter of Yashe-Yama, is seen with Kulu, son of Kalba, or he takes her away by deceit, if she does not put up resistance and does not say to the head of the family: “Write to Kalba, the father of Kulu,” Tabat-Ishar will be given the mark of a slave woman. . . .

Sippar. The month of Duzu (Tammuz), day 3, the 8th year…

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The daughter of a man with the Hebrew name Yashe-Yama (Isaiah) is forbidden to meet with a particular Babylonian man, under threat of being branded as a slave. The document was written in Sippar, in northern Babylonia, in 531 BCE.

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