Sale of Abandoned Property (3.72)(1,734 words)
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Commentary
Twelve years after the redaction of his document of wifehood (COSB.3.71), Anani paid fourteen shekels for the run-down house of the Caspian ʾpwly which was held in adverse possession by the Caspian couple Bagazushta and Wbyl. It lay across from the Temple on one side and next to the house of Wbyl’s father, Shatibara, who may have facilitated t…