Archaeologists have recently found a cache of legal documents stored by a woman named Bathaba in a cave near the Dead Sea in, the early second century C.E. On the one hand, she was involved in a dispute with her husband's other wife. Such a polygamous marriage was impossible under Roman law; it was an indigenous phenomenon. Yet, when she wanted to appeal (or considered appealing) to the Roman governor in her disputes, she prepared documents in Roman form. Other documents were just similar to Roman, types. This one archive shows both the continued coexistence of local and Roman law and their commingling.

Source: Andrew W. Lintott, Imperium Romanum: Politics and Administration (London & New York: Rout/edge, 1993), pp. 156-157.