State document: T-S Ar.40.13

State document T-S Ar.40.13

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T-S Ar.40.13
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Primary Language
Arabic

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Recto: Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 20 Rabīʿ II 404 (17 October 1013). (Khan read 8 Rabīʿ II 404.) Amount: one-third and one-eighth dīnār. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Measurements: 13 × 8.5 cm. The verso (as conserved), written before the recto, contains the statement of an official before a dīwān in the Fayyūm.

Related People

Legal and state personnel
Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ
Mentioned
Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb
Scribe
Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ

Related Places

Mentioned
Madīnat al-Fayyūm

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS Arabic Box 40, fol. 13; TS Arabic Box 40, f. 13
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In PGP since 2018
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T-S Ar.40.13 1r

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1r

T-S Ar.40.13 1v

1v
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