Editing Elephantine papyri and ostraca (section)

====Real estate documents====

=====Bagazust and Ubil sell a house to Ananiah=====
[[File:Property Sale Document, 437 B.C.E,47.218.95a-b.jpg|thumbnail|Property Sale Document: Bagazust and Ubil Sell a House to Ananiah, September 14, 437 BCE [[Brooklyn Museum]]]]
This document to the right describes a property purchased by Ananiah, twelve years after his marriage, from a Persian soldier named Bagazust and his wife, Ubil. The property, in a town on [[Elephantine]] Island, named for the god [[Khnum]], was located across the street from the Temple of Yauh and adjacent to the Persian family of Ubil's father. As such proximity might suggest, the Egyptians, Jews, and Persians in Elephantine all lived among one another. The renovation of the house and its gradual transfers to family members are the central concerns of the next several documents in Ananiah's family archive.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bleiberg|author-link=Edward Bleiberg|first1=Edward|title=Jewish Life in Ancient Egypt: A Family Archive from the Nile Valley|date=2002|publisher=Brooklyn Museum of Art|location=Brooklyn, NY|page=30}}</ref>

=====Ananiah gives Tamut part of the house=====
Three years after purchasing the house from Bagazust and Ubil, Ananiah transferred ownership of an apartment within the now renovated house to his wife, Tamut. Although Tamut thereafter owned the apartment, Ananiah required that at her death it pass to their children, Palti and Yehoishema. As with all property transfers within a family, this gift was described as made "in love".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bleiberg|author-link=Edward Bleiberg|first1=Edward|title=Jewish Life in Ancient Egypt: A Family Archive from the Nile Valley|date=2002|publisher=Brooklyn Museum of Art|location=Brooklyn, NY|page=32}}</ref>

=====Ananiah gives Yehoishema part of the house=====
Drawn up thirty years after the preceding papyrus, this document is one of several that gradually transferred ownership of Ananiah and Tamut's house to their daughter, Yehoishema, as payment on her dowry. The legal descriptions of the house preserve the names of Ananiah's neighbors. They included an Egyptian who held the post of gardener of the Egyptian god [[Khnum]] and, on the other side, two Persian boatmen. Image of document in gallery.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bleiberg|author-link=Edward Bleiberg|first1=Edward|title=Jewish Life in Ancient Egypt: A Family Archive from the Nile Valley|date=2002|publisher=Brooklyn Museum of Art|location=Brooklyn, NY|page=34}}</ref>

=====Ananiah gives Yehoishema another part of the house=====
For his daughter Yehoishema's dowry, Ananiah had transferred to her partial ownership of the house he shared with Tamut. After making more repairs to the building, Ananiah transferred a further section of the house, described in this document, to the dowry. Image of document in gallery.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bleiberg|author-link=Edward Bleiberg|first1=Edward|title=Jewish Life in Ancient Egypt: A Family Archive from the Nile Valley|date=2002|publisher=Brooklyn Museum of Art|location=Brooklyn, NY|page=36}}</ref>

=====Ananiah and Tamut sell the house to their son-in-law=====
This papyrus records the sale of the remaining portion of Ananiah and Tamut's house to Yehoishema's husband. Possibly because the clients were dissatisfied with something the scribe had written, at one point the text of the document breaks off and then starts over again, repeating what has gone on before with some additions. The boundary description included here refers to the Temple of Yauh in Elephantine, now rebuilt eight years after its destruction in 410 BCE during a civil war conflict that arose out of a land dispute. Image of document in gallery below.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bleiberg|author-link=Edward Bleiberg|first1=Edward|title=Jewish Life in Ancient Egypt: A Family Archive from the Nile Valley|date=2002|publisher=Brooklyn Museum of Art|location=Brooklyn, NY|page=39}}</ref>