Letter: T-S AS 178.110

Letter T-S AS 178.110

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In PGP since 2021

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Letter addressed to Abū ʿImrān, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Reporting that the addressee's son (also named Abū ʿImrān?) arrived with nothing but [...] and a kind of fūṭa garment. They set him up with al-Qazzāz (the silk weaver), but then he ran away and was gone all day. When he came back, the sender took him into his own shop. Then he ran away again, and they chased him, but couldn't catch up with him, and now his whereabouts are unknown. The other details of the letter are still obscure; needs examination. There are a few lines of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals on verso, probably unrelated.