This contract from the Babatha archive concerns crops from the three date-palm orchards of Babatha’s late husband, over which she assumed control after his death. It is written on papyrus in Greek and is signed in Aramaic.
In the second consulship of Publius Iuventius Celsus and Lucius Neratius Marcellus, the ninth [ . . . ] year twenty-four, on the twentieth (twenty-third?) of Dios in…