Abstrakt
The Samaria papyri were discovered by the Bedouins from the tribe Ta'amireh in one of the caves in Wadi ed-Daliyeh in 1962. The corpus of texts consists of legal documents, mostly deeds of sale of slaves, written in the city of Samaria in the 4th century BCE, before 332 BCE (conquest of Palestine by Alexander the Great).
They were purchased for the Palestine Archaeological Museum (today the Rockefeller Museum), and some of them were published by Frank Moore Cross (Harvard University). Most of the manuscripts were published by Douglas M.
Gropp in the series Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (Oxford: Clarendon Press). A first complete edition with a thorough historical analysis of the manuscripts and their context was published by Jan Dušek (Leiden - Boston: Brill).
New papyrus fragments, inscribed with Aramaic text in Aramaic cursive script identical to that of the Samaria papyri, appeared on the antiquities market and were purchased for the collection of Martin Schoyen. These new fragments possibly belong to the corpus of Samaria papyri and it is in this article that they are published for the first time.