Legal document: T-S 12.523

Legal document T-S 12.523

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T-S 12.523
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Power of attorney. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 4 Shevaṭ 4850 AM (8 January 1090 CE). Given by ʿAmram b. Yosef of Tyre to Shelomo b. Yosef a silk merchant of Damietta, to claim 67 dinars of Fustat coinage and standard weight from Aharon b. Shemarya ha-Kohen of Alexandria. In the margin there are a few words in Arabic script from the draft of a letter. On verso there are Hebrew-script jottings. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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Aharon b. Shemarya ha-Kohen, ʿAmram b. Yosef al-Ṣūrī, Shelomo b. Yosef al-Ḥarīrī al-Dimyāṭī

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Fustat

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
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T-S 12.523 1r

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T-S 12.523 1v

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1v
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