Letter: AIU VII.E.165

Description

Letter fragment to a certain ḥaver ("... ba-sanhedrin gedolah...") describing the writer's financial distress. He also provides a recommendation for the bearer of the letter, who is in still greater distress from the capitation tax and is intending to travel to al-Shām and needs help. There is a postscript implying that the recipient or someone in his family is sick or in distress and conveying the writer's worry.