Legal document: T-S 12.627

Legal document T-S 12.627

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T-S 12.627
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Judaeo-Arabic

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Note on a deposition in court about a sending of oriental goods carried by two merchants killed in the East African port ʿAydhāb. Location: Fustat. Dating: ca. 1104 CE. Hastily written by Rabbi Avraham b. Shemaʿya. See Goitein's attached notes for a translation with extensive commentary. The goods include "a piece of Chinese jasper, a mann of Chinese (petrified) crawfish, and 3 aprons of asbestos, which are not burnt by fire."

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ʿAydhāb

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
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T-S 12.627 1r

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T-S 12.627 1v

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