Title: Small Document, Perhaps a Label
Date: mid-fourth century BC
Location: Bactria
Materials: ink on leather
Dimensions: 9.6 x 15.6cm (maximum)
Accession Number: IA 15
Other Notes:
The document concerns Bagavant, the governor of Khulmi, and his wife. It is perhaps a label originally attached to a container. A hole on one side may have served to attach the document by means of a narrow strip to the container. No date is given.
Script:
written in Official Aramaic
Bibliography:
J. Naveh & S. Shaked, Aramaic Documents from Ancient Bactria (Fourth Century BCE), London 2012, no.A9, pp.122–6.
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