وثيقة رسميّة: DK 256 (alt: XXI)

الوصف

Recto: State report from an administrator for Asyūṭ to a high bureaucrat under the caliph al-Āmir, presumably in Cairo. Contains four discrete sections each opening with a taqbīl clause. Reports on a remittance of 2,000 dinars of the revenue extracted from Asyūṭ for the year [5]10 (= 1116/17 CE) sent with Sayf al-Dīn Bulāq; the sugarcane crop (aqṣāb); the operation and repair of seven presses (maʿāṣir); a request for troops to guard them; the damaged grain crop of 509 (1115/16 CE); seed-advances (taqāwī); and a petition from the local population to be allowed to buy grain at 40 dinars per hundred irdabbs. Verso contains various jottings in Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic, Hebrew, and Coptic numerals. One of the Judaeo-Arabic jottings is text probably copied from the end of an Arabic legal deed referring to "[Dhū] l-Ḥijja 527 AH (=October/November 1133 CE), and it was written in the last third of the month of al-Muḥarram." Another of the jottings is the name ʿEli b. Ḥotam ha-Levi written twice and crossed out. This man also appears in T-S 8J5.12 (PGPID 2134) from 1136 CE and probably T-S 13J13.9 (PGPID 3228) (as Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ḥātim).