منحة في رسالة: MIAC 23973.49

Recto

1. In the name of God the Merciful and Compassionate.
2. I inform the Ikshīl and Master of the Horses—may God prolong his life
3. and cause his protection, safety and wellbeing to endure— that he knows that
4. every year a large number of boats travel to your land
5. and your colleagues badly mistreat them. This year
6. the people from the port (of Aswan) were hindered
7. in two ways. One of these is the injustice done to them by the people of the land
8. and the other is the lack of produce. So, I took1 some haircutters (and opened sacks of produce)
9. and gave relief to the people and the first of them
10. were the people in your land. If it was not for me, they (i.e., our people) would not have found produce,
11. nor did anybody dare send (produce). I have sent

Recto, right margin

1. two boats and everything in them is mine. I would like
2. the Ikshīl to ensure that nobody obstructs
3. them and that nobody diminishes
4. what is rightly theirs, and if they need
5. pieces of calico cloth, then please undertake to provide these
6. for them.

Verso

1. They will not receive a favour from you without being grateful, if God wills.
2. If you have any need, write to me concerning it, if God, the Mighty and Glorious, wills.
3. Praise be to God alone, His blessings be upon our lord Muḥammad, His prophet, and His peace.
4. Our sufficiency is God. What a fine keeper is He!

Verso, address, right column

1. To the Ikshīl, Master of the Horses, vizier of the king
2. Uruwī ibn Khiyākh, the deputy of the king.

Verso, address, left column

1. One grateful to him,
2. Lāmiʿ ibn Ḥasan al-Kanzī.