State document: T-S Ar.39.219

State document T-S Ar.39.219

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End of a petition in Arabic script. Asking for permission to enter Egypt on behalf of a group of people. In a different hand, there are several dozen names written in the margins of recto and on verso; these may be the names of the petitioners or alternatively an independent list (e.g., alms distribution list). (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

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