Letter: ENA NS 7.57

Letter ENA NS 7.57

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ENA NS 7.57
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

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In PGP since 2017

Description

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Elegant hand. Mentions the town of Ṭanān and deals with the construction of a dike (jisr) and an irrigation canal (turʿa); the addressee is to go and obtain for this purpose the cattle (abqār) and dredging tools (jarārīf: see Rapoport, "Irrigation in the Medieval Islamic Fayyum," p. 24, and Borsch, Stuart (2014) "Plague Depopulation and Irrigation Decay in Medieval Egypt," The Medieval Globe: Vol. 1 : No. 1, p. 139). ASE.

ENA NS 7.57 1

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ENA NS 7.57 2

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