Letter: ENA NS 68.6

Letter ENA NS 68.6

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Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports on receiving authorization (al-ʿalāma) to collect the kharāj tax from the official in charge of estates (ʿāmil al-mawārīth). The number 15 (dinars) is mentioned, as are Abū l-Mufaḍḍal and the tax farmer (al-Ḍāmin) Ibn Ḥabīb. Information from Ora Vaza via FGP.

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ENA NS 68.6 1

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Yusuf Umrethwala and Alan Elbaum's digital edition (2025).

  1. כ]אן פי אלכתאב אלמ[דכור

  2. ]כרג לעאמל אלמוארית בכמסה ועשר[ין דינארא ברסם

  3. אבו אלמפצ̇ל ואכדת אלעלאמה עליהם וסל[מת] אלבר[אה אלי אבו]

  4. אלמפצ̇ל וקבצ̇ת דנאניר אלכרג מן עאמל אלמוארית ו[אמא

  5. רקעה שואל פאנני לם אקבצ̇הא אלי יומנא הדא בל אועדונא

  6. אנהם ידפעוהא לנא יום אלא[

  7. לאן אלצ̇אמן אבן חביב זאלת יד[

  8. אסכנדר[יה(?)

  9. פיה [

Alan Elbaum's digital translation (2025).

  1. [...] in the af[orementioned] document [...]

  2. it came out to 25 [dīnārs] to the administrator of estates [for]

  3. Abū l-Mufaḍḍal. I obtained the registration mark for them and del[ivered] the rec[eipt to Abū]

  4. l-Mufaḍḍal, and I collected the dīnārs of the tax from the administrator of estates. [As for]

  5. the note for Shawwāl, I have still not collected it, but they promised us

  6. that they would give it to us on [...]

  7. because the tax farmer Ibn Ḥabīb [...]

  8. Alexandr[ia]

  9. in it

ENA NS 68.6 2

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