List or table: T-S Ar.52.247

List or table T-S Ar.52.247

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T-S Ar.52.247

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Account of expenditures in Dammuh (ca. 1182-3) by Sayyid al-Ahl, consisting of a list of disbursements made at the plantation in Dammuh in the course of a year. Most of the items pertain to building operations, including labor and materials, such as fence, mud and lime and stones for the well. Eight dirhams are mentioned as expenditure for the supply of palm branches. The total yearly amount of the expenditures was 628 dirhams, and since probably wariq dirhams are meant, this would represent ca. 15.5 dinars. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 324 #78) EMS

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Umm Baqā

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Dammūh

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
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TS Arabic Box 52, f. 247; TS Arabic Box 52, fol. 247
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T-S Ar.52.247 1r

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Moshe Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza (Brill, 1976).

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  1. תבת מא אמלאה אלשׁיך סיד אלאהל בן אל[....] אנה
  2. אנפקה מן צמאן בסתאן דמוה שׁנת אתצד א[למופ]קה
  3. לסנה תמאן וסבעין וכמסה מאיה לתאריך אלערב [
  4. אלתרס? ביד אלמסמי תרכי י' מסאמיר יה אלאעמ[א
  5. אבו כלבוץ אלכפיר והבה ג' מסחאה ג' בן גדיר ה' טין א'
  6. מאונה אלגיר ז' עמל חאיט אלבסתאן אלבראני כז' נגאר א ½ 0
  7. אלכדאם ו מאונה אלגריד יח' גריד ללאעמא ד' אצראם יג 0
  8. תנטיף יד ½ ועמא אורד ללשׁיך אלמבין שׁץ' [[..]] תמאנין דרהם
  9. ברקעה ואיצא ך' ואיצא סט ואיצא [[..]] עו 0 ואיצא קה ½ 0
  10. ואיצא צז וען גראמה געל ח ½ וען כפארה סנה תסע
  11. ל אלגמלה תרכח
Moshe Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza (Brill, 1976).

Recto, right side:

  1. Record, as dictated by al-Shaykh Sayyid al-Ahl b. al- .... 

  2. of expenditures made by him on the account of the plantation at Dammūh during the year 1494, corresponding 

  3. to the year 578 of the Arabic calendar, namely, 

  4. to begin with: Paid to the (man) nicknamed Turkī, 10. Nails, 18. The blind, 3. 

  5. Abū Kalbūṣ al-Kufayr, a gift, 3. A shovel, 3. B. Judayr, 5. Clay, 1. 

  6. Supply of lime 7. For work at the wall of the plantation, al-Barrānī, 27. A carpenter, 1 3/4. 

  7. The beadles, 6. Supply of palm branches, 18. Palm branches for the blind, 4. Stones, 13 1/4. 

  8. Cleaning 14 ½. Handed over to al-Shaykh al-Mēvīn, may God preserve him, 80 dir.,

  9. by a note plus 20, plus 69, plus 76 1/4, plus 105 3/4, 

  10. plus 97. The debt for a tip, 8 1/2. Nightwatch for the year [57]9, 

  11. 30. Total, 628. 

 

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