Geniza Lab

Ketubba in the Palestinian style. Only the recto was photographed. Dated: Heshvan 1440 Seleucid, which is 1128 CE, under the reshut of Maṣliaḥ Ga'on. Location: Probably Damascus or nearby. Groom: Sasson b. Yefet ha-Zaqen. Bride: Kulla, a virgin and a "divorcee from a betrothal." The bride appoints her brother Ghālib b. Berakhot ha-Zaqen as her representative (lit. "guardian"). Likely the same scribe as Moss. VII,67.2, which is a document from Damascus written prior to 1138 CE. First identified by Ronny Vollandt. Information from Amir Ashur, “A Ketubah in the Palestinian Style with the Permission of Maẓliaḥ Gaon, from the Damascus Geniza” [in Hebrew], Peʿamim 135 (2013), 163–170.