List or table: JRL SERIES C 168

Description

Lists in Judaeo-Arabic of various food items and their respective quantity or weight. The accounts feature both Western Arabic and some Coptic-Zimam numerals, the latter are less common after the sixteenth century. The paleography helps to estimate the dating of the fragment as 18th/19th-century. Most of the food types are listed generically as eggs, lemon, beans, almonds, etc. but on the bottom of the recto it is clear that quantities of beef are being calculated in raṭl units given the mention of "לחם בקרי". MCD.