1 TADEA A4.4.

2 B. Porten, The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change; Second Revised Edition (DMOA 220), Atlanta 2011, 134–135.

3 In TADEA A4.4; Porten, Elephantine Papyri in English, 134.

4 J.M. Lindenberger, Ancient Aramaic and Hebrew Letters (Writings from the Ancient World, 14), Atlanta 1994, 60–61; the quotation is from p. 55.

5 C. Tamber-Rosenau, ‘Female Diplomats in Jewish Elephantine? A New Look at a Papyrus from the Yedaniah Archive’, JSOT 40 (2016), 491–510.

6 See, e.g., J.H. Johnson, ‘The Social, Economic and Legal Status of Women in Ancient Egypt’, in: E. Teeter, J.H. Johnson (eds), The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt (OIP 59), Chicago 2009, 82–97; A.F. Botta, ‘Aspects of the Daily Life of the Jewish Colony of Elephantine’, Antiguo Oriente 9 (2011), 63–84; A. Azzoni, The Private Lives of Women in Persian Egypt, Winona Lake 2013.

7 Tamber-Rosenau, ‘Female Diplomats in Jewish Elephantine?’, 500–02.

8 ABL 886 = SAA XVII,73; SAA XVII, 68; see also P. Dubovský, Hezekiah and the Assyrian Spies: Reconstruction of the Neo-Assyrian Intelligence Services and its Significance for 2 Kings 18–19 (BeO 49), Roma 2006, 109–17.

9 Tamber-Rosenau, ‘Female Diplomats in Jewish Elephantine?’, 502–07.

10 TADEA C3.15.

11 See H. Nutkowicz, Destins de femmes à Eléphantine au Vè siècle avant notre ère, Paris 2015; Azzoni, The Private Lives of Women in Persian Egypt, 39–42; Tamber-Rosenau, ‘Female Diplomats in Jewish Elephantine?’, 503–05.

12 TADAE B2.2 and 3; see A. Botta, The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine: An Egyptological Approach (LSTS 64), London, New York 2009, 124–26.

13 Not the capital of the satrapy Mudrāya as Tamber-Rosenau, ‘Female Diplomats in Jewish Elephantine?’, 496, suggests.

14 See Lindenberger, Ancient Aramaic and Hebrew Letters, 60.

15 TADEA A4.4:3–4.

16 TADEA A4.4:5–6.

17 TADEA A4.4:7.

18 See, e.g., Azzoni, Private Lifes, 108; Tamber-Rosenau, ‘Female Diplomats in Jewish Elephantine?’, 496.

19 TADEA A4.4; Porten, Elephantine Papyri in English, 134–35.

20 Tamber-Rosenau, ‘Female Diplomats in Jewish Elephantine?’, 496.

21 Itp. of the verb ‘ḥd // ‘ḥz, ‘be taken; seized’. See T. Muraoka, B. Porten, A Grammar of Egyptian Aramaic: Second Revised Edition, Atlanta 2003, 16; DNWSI I, 37.

22 Tamber-Rosenau, ‘Female Diplomats in Jewish Elephantine?’, 498–99.

23 ša'ar in the Hebrew Bible; see also EA 244:16; Phoenician and Punic.

24 Ruth 4 for instance.

25 E.g., Lindenberger, Ancient Aramaic and Hebrew Letters, 60.

26 Porten, The Elephantine Papyri in English, 133.

27 See also: H. Nutkowicz, ‘Note sur une institution juridique à Éléphantine, ‘dh, la «cour»’, Transeu-phratène 27 (2004), 181–185.

28 Tamber-Rosenau, ‘Female Diplomats in Jewish Elephantine?’, 495.

29 E.g, by B. Porten, Archives from Elephantine: The Life of an Ancient Jewish Colony, Berkeley, Los Angeles; P. Grelot, Documents araméens d'Egypte (LAPO 5), Paris 1972, 126; B. Porten, ‘The Archive of Jedaniah Son of Gemariah of Elephantine — The Structure and Style of the Letters’, Eretz Israel 14 (1978), 165–77; G. Granerød, Dimensions of Yahwism in the Persian Period: Studies in the Religion and Society of the Judaean Community at Elephantine (BZAW 488), Berlin — New York 2016, 33.

30 E.g., TADEA A4.10:1.

31 Grelot, Documents araméens d'Egypte, 126.