Letter: ENA 2808.30

Letter ENA 2808.30

Metadata

Shelfmark
ENA 2808.30
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

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Additional metadata

Historical shelfmarks
ENA 2808, f. 30; ENA 2808, fol. 30
Input date
In PGP since 2021

Description

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary (horizontal piece from the middle). Mentions a woman going up to Fustat and litigating over 20 dinars. "And if her travel is delayed to pay him the 20 dinars that is part of his merchandise (? raḥluh), she is excused, because her daughter died and she herself became mortally ill, and illness annuls debts." Then the letter, confusingly, appears to address the woman: " go up (iṭlaʿī), and if there is no going up and no weighing of the people of Sedom..." The text in the margin suggests that this letter is a query addressed to a legal authority. On recto there is an unidentified text in a crude hand that includes words in Hebrew, Aramaic, and maybe Judaeo-Arabic.

ENA 2808.30 2

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Transcription

Translation

ENA 2808.30 1

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