Scholarship on List or table: Unknown (excavation images 1974_V09_01–01A and 1974_V09_04–04A)

List or table Unknown (excavation images 1974_V09_01–01A and 1974_V09_04–04A)
  1. Bibliographic citation
    Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia (University of Cambridge and Open Book Publishers, 2024).
    Location in source
    • doc. 43
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Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia (University of Cambridge and Open Book Publishers, 2024).

recto, right column

  1. Three raṭls of (odiferous) shrub
  2. four dirhams
  3. and a half
  4. A raṭl of frankincense
  5. four dirhams
  6. and a half
  7. A raṭl and a quarter of costus (aromatic plant)
  8. an eighth of a dīnār
  9. A raṭl and a half of myrrh
  10. an eighth of a dīnār

recto, middle column

  1. Three raṭls of storax
  2. four dirhams
  3. and a half
  4. A quarter of spikenard
  5. a quarter of a dīnār
  6. A raṭl of Indian saffron
  7. an eighth of a dīnār
  8. An enveloping cloak made of wool
  9. two dirhams

recto, left column

  1. In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
  2. The dīnārs that are income [ ]
  3. Those that have been disbursed [ ]
  4. and those that have been lost [ ]

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verso

  1. and for fourteen waybas of cartham seed: two thirds of a dīnār
  2. and for twelve raṭls and a half of bitumen: two thirds of a dīnār
  3. and for a basket (the contents of which) are mentioned below
  4. The additional qīrāṭ is for the price of the army wool: two dīnārs
  5. and a third of a dīnār
  6. The details of its contents
  7. cardamon half [ ]