List or table: T-S K15.66 + T-S K15.14

Description

T-S K15.66 forms the upper part and T-S K15.14 the lower part, of one list of about a hundred persons, contributing or being asked to contribute from 1/6 to 3/4 dinar, as partial payment of the capitation tax, the community making up the balance. These are all male, foreigners, laborers, craftsmen mostly of lower standing, community officials, persons called ghulām or ṣabiyy, that is, slave, freedman, or employee, and five others designated as ḍamīn, persons for whom security was given. Alternatively, the sums following the names may indicate the amounts to be paid by the community. The notables whose employees are mentioned (Dosa, Ibn Sughmār, Ibn ʿAwkal [son of the merchant Yosef], Bahūdī, Ibn Ḥirbish) were active around 1040. Foreigners from Palestine, 5 (Tiberias 3; Baniyas 1; Jish, 1); Persia,2; Tiflis, 1; Spain, 3; Saqlabi (of Slavic origin), 1. Some names are only partly visible. Note: 3 kinds of shoemakers in a single list: iskāf, ḥadhdhāʾ, kharrāz (Information mainly from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 422 n81; p. 440, App. 4-5.)