Legal document: T-S 13J6.24

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Power of attorney. In Judaeo-Arabic. A woman with the strange name of Qirā al-Lawn (קרא אללון), the widow of the late Marwān, appoints Shelomo b. David b. Shimʿon to claim from Ṣemaḥ b. Shemuel what was due to her from the estate of her paternal uncle. She had already received 38 dinars. On verso the name Sittnā bt. Yeshuʿa appears. The scribe uses ה and א interchangeably at the ends of words, so the first part of her name may be Qurra (solace), as in the set phrase "qurrat al-ʿayn"; the "lawn" (color) part remains mysterious. There is a Ṣemaḥ b. Shemuel ha-Kohen who signed legal documents in 1144 CE (Yevr. III B 636) and 1150 (BL OR 8661.1). (Information in part from CUDL.) VMR