FROM O. ROUAULT AND M.G. MASETTI-ROUAULT, L’EUFRATE E IL TEMPO (1993)

FATEFUL LITTLE FOOTPRINT. A contract, which accompanied a footprint of a two-year-old girl, specified that her parents relinquished their rights to her—selling her, along with her two younger brothers, into servitude. The footprint and contract date to the end of the 13th century B.C.E.