List or table: JRL SERIES C 51

Description

Lists of contributions in Judaeo-Arabic related to the kosher meat tax known as "gabela". This fragment may have once been part of a larger register for communal tax collection in Cairo. The entries on the first folio's recto record the months Adar-Av ("Menaḥem") of the year 5595 AM. Although the ligature in the date ([55]95=קצה) is barely legible this reading is confirmed by the presence of Moshe Ben-Naʿīm's name, who appears widely in nineteenth-century documents. The monetary figures related to the kosher tax are recorded in silver kuruş (indicated by "ق" at the top of each column) and another type of silver coinage "פצה". The features of this fragment suggest the existence of a broader communal tax register. MCD.