Endnote 1 – Edomite Wedding Vows

For more on the wedding contract, see Amos Kloner and Esther Eshel, “An Aramaic Ostracon of an Edomite Marriage Contract from Maresha, Dated 176 B.C.E.,” Israel Exploration Journal 46:1–2 (1996), pp. 1–22.
The first line of the contract indicates the document was written in the Seleucid year 136 (dating from the Hellenistic king Seleucus’ foundation of a dynasty, based in Syria, in 312 B.C.E.) or 176 B.C.E. The month Sivan, also mentioned in line 1, corresponds to June.