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Rare document issued for six year old girl, that due to accidental reasons she is a mukkat ez (literally, "injured by a piece of wood"; Ket. 1:7). The term is applied to a woman whose hyman has been ruptured due to an accident. Virginity in halakhah is not necessarily a maiden whose hymen is intact. She can be legally regarded both as a virgin with a ruptured hymen and as a non-virgin when it is intact. The former applies when she can claim, according to Rabban Gamaliel and R. Eliezer, or prove, according to R. Joshua b. Hananiah, that the rupture was caused by an injury. The legal disability of a non-virgin expresses itself in the fact that her ketubbah is only 100 zuz instead of the 200 of the virgin (Ket. 1:2). This document restores the ketubbah value to 200 zuz.