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On verso, they explain that "the Rayyis is a captive in the house, and we are surrounded/besieged, we are distressed and there is no deliverance, may God deliver you (pl.). The latest report is that the decree (al-manshūr) is false and counterfeit (zūr wa-buhtān), and the decrees (al-sijillāt) are not for him(?)." (On the decree-terms "sijill" and "manshūr" and the relationship between them, see Rustow, "A petition to a woman at the Fatimid court," p. 9 note 25, and Rustow, Lost Archive, p. 267 note 55.) The sender swears by the Ten Commandments (ووحق العشر كلمات) and thanks God and the amīr Ḥusām al-Dawla, for without their benefactions, al-ʿAmmānī(?)
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