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Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 45
...(They hired the boat) for the purpose of loading (and transporting) goods tothe border of the region where Muslims have the right to travel (al-islāmiyya), travelling up- and downstream, from the coast of Bilāq to the Island of Michael in the Land of the Nubians, in a periodbeginning in Kīhak and ending on the last day of ʾAmshīr of the Coptic months, within the year five-hundred and sixty-six (December–March 1170–71 AD),with the stipulation that they sail downstream from the Island of Michael on the first day of Baramhāt, the Coptic month, withinthe aforementioned year, for a rent whose amount for the aforementioned period is fifteen dīnārs, of standard weight, in gold, in minted coin of full weight,valid Egyptian coins of al-ʿĀḍid, of good alloy. The two elders who were the lessors paid to the one leasing to them, who is named together with them in it (the document), allthe aforementioned rent, namely fifteen dīnārs with the aforementioned properties. - Related Places
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