פפירוסי יב (אלפנטינה)
deposited on April 16, 2026 · History register · custodian, not owner
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The Elephantine Papyri are Aramaic legal, administrative and religious documents from a Jewish military garrison on Elephantine island in Upper Egypt, serving the Persian Achaemenid empire. They provide unique testimony about a pre-rabbinic Jewish community with its own temple and religious practices that challenged conventional understanding of early Judaism.
