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Ive seen a lot of oddities come across my desk from individuals looking to have Aramaic identified and translated. Pottery sherds, pottery shards (yes, there is a difference), incantation bowls, old Ketubahs that people find in their attics (my personal favorite), prayer books, jewelry, and even a copper scroll (not The Copper Scroll, but *a* copper scroll, no joke); but, when this came to me, I was a bit stunned.
This is the very first time I have ever seen an artifact this unique.
It is a rather crumbling piece of papyrus that was once sealed with a wax impression. It is old. The handwriting and dialect unmistakably place the text as Imperial Aramaic.
At the top I can make out ש[נת] ש[תי]תי ז[י] דריהוש מלכא == the si[xt]h [yea]r o[f] King Darius, (placing it during the Persian Administration) and the rest of it seems to be dealing with matters of inheritance within a family.
However, in the meat of the document, I immediately came upon some trouble with t