Several papyri in the Babatha and Salome Komaise archives mention guardianship of minors or women.

P.Yadin 12-15, already referred to in Chapter 4 on law of succession, concern a child in ward, Babatha's minor son Jesus. The papyri deal with appointment of guardians for this child and a dispute between the mother of the child, Babatha, and the appointed guardians over the maintenance money they provided.

The fact that there are several papyri that deal with the same matter ensures that a better picture can be formed of the situation and the judi­cial arrangements made. Nevertheless, a lot remains unclear and for every question answered a new one can be raised. A complicating factor is the matter of guardianship of women, a concept referred to in these same papyri. In P.Yadin 14 and 15 Babatha, the mother of the child, is accompanied by a guardian, obviously to assist her in some way in the legal dealings at issue.^[782] The question is of course what his exact role was. Apart from that there is the interesting detail that where the Greek uses one word for both types of guardians, of the minor and of the woman, the Aramaic uses two distinct terms, (possibly) referring to two differ­ent legal concepts. This is all the more astonishing if one keeps in mind that the Semitic systems that are the basis for the Aramaic legal tradition did not know guardianship of a woman. This was obviously a Greek and later a Roman matter. How then are we to understand the appearance of the guardian in the Babatha and Salome Komaise archives, and the different ways in which the Greek and the Aramaic of the documents refer to this guardian?

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