The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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Bactria Letters: Letters and other memoranda from the Persian administration in Bactria (3rd quarter of 4th cent. BCE): ed. princeps: Joseph Naveh and Shaul Shaked, Aramaic Documents from Ancient Bactria (Fourth Century BCE.) (London: The Khalili Family Trust, 2012).

The readings are often difficult and new suggestions are welcome:

ADAB A.9: memorandum (of a dowry?) of Bagavant, ca. 350 BCE now re-read in a magesterial edition by A. Lemaire in "The A9 Aramaic Manuscript from Ancient Bactria Revisited", Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies ... McCarter Jr. (SBL Press, 2022) pp. 357ff. and our text genreally follows his suggestions.