Letter: T-S NS J544

Letter T-S NS J544

Description

Letter from Hillel b. Abū l-MN[...], probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Faraj Hilāl al-Iskandarānī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. The sender was worried about the addressee ever since he departed. The latter's father said that "they were scared" and that "they would try to get you to al-ʿAṭf" (a town also mentioned in T-S 13J24.18 and T-S 16.284). There is reference to "a western wind from our location," and then the rest of the letter is torn away. On verso there is also an accounting note in Judaeo-Arabic (Abū l-Ḥasan b. Futūḥ collected 19.5 wariq dirhams).