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14401LetterT-S Misc.25.106
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The letter contains sundry reports about the Palestinian and Iraqi synagogues and dealings with the notables of Fustat. Among these, Abū ʿAlī, the caretaker of the Palestinian synagogue, has taken ill, so he has neglected his duties, and the synagogue has fallen into disrepair.
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כי ביי תוחלתי
1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלריס אלגליל ואדאם תאידה ועלוה וכבת
2. עדאתה מן אלמסתקר במצר יום אלאחד ליד כלון מן אב ואלחאל סלאמה
3. ועאפי…
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14402LetterT-S Misc.28.199
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Yaʿaqov tells Yosef that he has purchased two qirābs of olive oil and delivered them to Ibn al-Tuffāḥī in Jaffa (Gil, Palestine, 1:237).
Recto
1. כתאבי יסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך וסעאדתך ונעמתך
2. [מן א]ל[ק]דס לה כלון מן אדר שני ערפך אללה ברכתה ויומנה ען סלאמה ואלחמד ללה
3. […
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14403LetterT-S Misc.28.207
Letter from Yosef b. Labrāṭ al-Fāsī (identified on the basis of the handwriting), probably writing from Qayrawān, to Yaʿaqov b.
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1. וסי]די בקאך ואדאם איאם סלאמתך ורעאיתך וציאנתך וכפאיתך וחראסתך
2. ] כתבת ישיכי וסידי ען אחואל אן תסרך ואמור אן תבהגך דלך פצ'ל אל…
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14404LetterT-S NS 70.112
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Small fragment of a letter addressed to Isḥāq b. ʿAllūn. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script on verso.
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14405List or tableT-S NS 83.11
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Some of the names mentioned are: Ḥanna, Aṣlān, and al-Qāvūqj[u]? (אל קאאוקג). The latter term may be an Arabophone spelling of the Turkish word kavukçu = "maker or seller of quilted turbans" (Redhouse Dictionary, p. 622).
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14406Legal documentT-S NS 288.185 + T-S AS 152.160
Document date
Kislev 5480 Anno Mundi (13 November 1719–12 December 1719 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
The transaction involves many parties: Yahūda Provensal, Yiṣḥaq Foa, Moshe Salāma, Yiṣḥaq Menaḥem, Shemuʾel Arditi, Moshe Arditi, and al-Emīr Muḥammad Yerek Katkhūda of the Mustaḥfiẓān janissary corps.
M. Dudley Dissertation, Appendix 6 /// T-S AS 152.160r + T-S NS 288.185v
1. בע׳׳ה
2. בהיות שהנבון וחכם והנעלה הגביר השר המרומם כה׳׳ר יאודה פרובינצאל נר׳׳ו…
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14407List or tableT-S NS 305.104
Primary language
Arabic
Recto appears to be a magical text with magical names ('hādhihi al-asmāʾ...').
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14408LetterT-S NS 321.52
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Mūsā, in Damīra, to Abū l-Faraj al-[...]. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender, an absent husband, reprimands his wifeʼs family for accusing him publicly of neglecting her (from Oded Zinger's PhD, p. 261).
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14409Legal documentT-S NS 325.23
Document date
Ṭevet 5359 Anno Mundi (29 December 1598–26 January 1599 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Mentions a שילבש (= Çelebi?) and an amīr and maybe al-Buḥayra.
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14410List or tableT-S NS 338.92
Verso: Mentions a shipment of Persian cloth, cotton, a deal with Ibn al-Tarabulsi and rosewater. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #358) VMR
recto - left side
1. שרח מונה אלעדל בקם כלטה ישועה
2. עתאלין ה דרא אגרה מכזן קיראטין
3. תכויר > שחד קיראטין
4. חראץ > סלפה ו דנא ותלת
5. …
recto - left side
1. (1–10, ימין:) פירוט הוצאות משאוי עץ האודם בשותפות עם ישועה: סבלים, ה׳ דרהמים, אריזה, חצי; שומרים, חצי; צבע, ב'; הקשירה, ד'; שכירות…
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14411Legal documentT-S NS 342.122
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Menashshe? The two sides (al-ḍiddayn) are Hiba b. Khalaf and the teacher Abū Kathīr.
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14412Legal documentT-S NS J94
Document date
Ṭevet 1438 Seleucid (17 December 1126–14 January 1127 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Deathbed declaration of Abū l-Maʿālī Shelomo al-Dhahabī. The witnesses to the declaration are ʿEli he-Ḥaver and Araḥ Ibn Kokhav (or Kawkab), and the judge is ʿEli b.
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1. חצר אלינא אנן בי דינא ומאן דחתים עימנא [ ]
2. ורבנא עלי החבר בס גד החכם והנבון יש[צו ]
3. ומור ארח הזקן בר מרור כוכב הזקן נע ו[ ]
4. וקאלו אלדי נעלמה א…
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14413LetterT-S NS J374
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Nissim b. Isḥāq b. al-Sahl, probably somewhere in the Maghrib, to Avraham b.
Recto
1. כתאבי יסידי ומולאי וריסי וגלילי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך
2. וסעאדתך ל'י איאם כלון מן כ'ס'ל'י'ו' ען סלאמה ושגל אן פי אלסר מן
3. אלעשארי אלדי בכיר …
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14414List or tableYevr. III B 639
Primary language
Arabic
In the second each entry begins "balagha", and in the third each entry begins "al-thamn" and gives a price in dinars. It's not immediately clear what commodity or commodities are involved.
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14415Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1567
Document date
1 Heshvan 5510 Anno Mundi (13 October 1749 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The document ends with the signature of the scribe Eliyahu Rofe aka Ṣaʿīr, although there are jottings of various unrelated debts/payments below the signature.
1. סבב תצטיר הדא אלאחרף באן חצרו אחי׳ ואהו׳ חזקיא יצ׳׳ו בכ׳׳ר הז׳ הנ׳ פינחס ידיע
2. נקאש יצ׳׳ו ואשהד עלי נפסה והו בחאל אלצחה ואלסלאמה ואלטועייא ואלאכתיאר
3. …
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14416LetterT-S 18J3.2
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Appeal to the public by a young woman to help her against her neglectful husband, her cousin Yosef b. Kulayb al-Kohen, the brother-in-law of Ibn Ṭarsūn the cantor. […] Translation: "In Your name, oh All Merciful. Oh Community of Israel, I appeal to God and to you. […] Then, three years ago, my mother died. I sold all my dowry and maintained myself by this, but now nothing has remained with me except turning to God and to you, oh Israel.
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14417LetterHUC 1119
Primary language
Hebrew
The sender explains that he will tell an abridged version of the story because he has already written several other letters but received no response. […] I said, 'Your son knew all this, that you were bringing a wife for your son? […] I checked his pubic area in front of other people and I didn't see any hair, he was like a young boy without hair. All this was on Passover when his wife fled. . . . there were no hairs and no follicles (?
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14418Legal query or responsumBL OR 5536.3
Document date
575 Hijrī (8 June 1179–27 May 1180 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Leaf from a dossier containing later (maybe 14th-15th c) copies of rescripts or responsa from Muslim and Jewish authorities concerning a scholar who allegedly had slandered a Jewish judge. The end of no. 8, from a Muslim amir, dated 575H (1179–80 CE), no. 9 (head of the yeshiva in Baghdad) and the beginning of no. 10 (same as preceding).
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14419Legal documentBL OR 10599.32
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The first words of eight lines are preserved; they mention two kosher witnesses and the consummation of a marriage (al-dukhūl bi-hā).
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14420LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/42
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Ismaʿīl al-Andalusī, in Tunisia or Sicily (Goitein) or Tyre (Gil), to Abū l-Walīd Yūnus b.
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14421LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/63
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Shelomo sends his regards to his sister Sitt al-Riyāsa and her siblings and her mother.
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1. כי שפתי כהן ישמרו דעת וג'
2. לך יי הוחלתי אתה תענה יי אלהי
3. אלממלוך שלמה ברבי אליה הדיין ס'ט
4. אל הדרת יקרת צפירת כגק מרנא ורבנא דוד הכבן החבר
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1. For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, etc.
2. But for thee, O Lord, do I wait; it is thou, O Lord my God, who wilt answer.
3. The sl…
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14422Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 56/18 + Bodl. MS heb. f 56/14
Document date
1476 Seleucid (19 September 1164–8 September 1165 CE)
Saʿadya ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-Kuttāb. Containing many items of dowry with realistic values.
F56 f.14 Verso
1. ]סבעין ושיתא שנין למנין שטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהר[א
2. ] מר ור מרדכי הלוי הזקן היקר שצ בן מר ור סעדיה הזקן היקר הלוי נע אמר [
3. ] ק…
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14423LetterCUL Add.3345
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
He wants to be on his way and to join Avraham al-Ger (the proselyte) on his journey to Ceuta, intending to make appeals (there).
1. אברכה את ייי בכל עת תמיד
2. תהלתו בפי
3. בייי תהלל נפשי ישמעו ענוים וישמחו
4. פודה ייי נפש עבדיו ולא יאשמו כל החוסים בו
5. חונה מלאך ד' סביב ליריאיו ויחלצם
6. חזקו…
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14424Legal documentCUL Add.3419
Document date
Thursday, 18 Iyyar 1409 Seleucid (22 April 1098 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Yiṣḥaq against Abū Manṣūr Aharon b. Mevasser al-Zayyāt. Witnessed by Netanʾel b. Yefet, Nissim b.
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14425Legal documentCUL Or.1081 J56
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Seʿ[adya known as Abū l-Yumn Ibn al-Baṣal]. This is the same couple whose divorce proceedings are detailed in CUL Or.1080 J141.
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14426LetterDK 327 + DK 327 (alt: 13)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Samḥūn b. Dāwūd ibn al-Siqillī (Qayrawān) to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. ʿAwkal (Fustat).
verso
1. ובעד יאסידי פמא אשך אנך תעמל פי שיי חסב מא ישבה מת'לך ואנא
2. ואתק בגמילך ודיאנתך ולו כאן [ ] באקי מאלך חאצ'רא ענדי מן כ'אצתך
3. לכנת נבעת …
verso
1. יתר על כן אדוני, הלוא אין לי ספק שתנהג עם כספי כראוי לאדם כמוך, ואני
2. סומך על הגינותך ויראת השמים שלך. אילו היה (חלק) מיתרת כספך נמצא אצלי, מחש…
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14427List or tableENA 2230.8
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Accounts on verso, with the heading titled "ḥisāb al-awrāq min ....[?]"– perhaps referring to paper production based on the number of times "awrāq" is repeated throughout the various accounts.
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- paper
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14428Legal documentENA 2558.17
Document date
1540 Seleucid (1228–1229 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Abū l-Riḍā [...] and the purchase of a shop with all its equipment and scales for a sum of 46[.].
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14429Legal documentENA 2747.12
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew
Aharon to sue Yefet b. [...] for all that her husband had left with him. Mentions "the city of חנס that is called אי כפתור," i.e., Damietta.
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14430Literary textENA 3015.8
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
There are clear sewing marks along the inner margins of the recto and verso. Some of the terms listed include: לנא/לנו, מנא/ממנו, מעכם/עמכם, בעיד/רחוק.
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14431Legal documentENA 3030.6–7
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Possibly the fragment was better preserved at the time, or he deduced that 60 was the more likely alternative based on her socioeconomic status). (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)
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14432List or tableENA 3518.2
Primary languages
Judaeo-Arabic, Ladino
A variety of individuals are referenced along the right border of the page: Amato (אמאטו), Meyuḥas (מיוחס), and "the Judge" (אלחכים) in Judaeo-Arabic.
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- numismatic dating
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14433State documentENA 3941.2
Primary language
Arabic
There are neatly spaced holes along the margin (like the other fragments in this folder), so this document was once bound together with other documents in a (presumably modern) folder.
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- pinholes
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14434List or tableENA 4020.62
Document date
1440 Seleucid (28 August 1128–15 September 1129 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Abū l-Khayr with the parnas Abū ʿAlī against the promise to bury her in specified clothing.
1. ]נאגיה בנת אבו אלכיר
2. ]מנשפה גסילה
3. ]ילה ופראש
4. ]סראויל וכלעה
5. ]כפנהא ושרחה
6. ] ורדא מקצור
7. ]. . ומערקה
8. ] איצא ואתנין ארדיה
9. ]ללכפו איצא
10. ] איזאר ותוב אל
11. ]מכ…
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14435LetterENA 4020.64
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. All that is preserved here is formulaic blessings and the standard complaint about lack of responses to prior letters.
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14436LetterENA NS 77.263 + ENA NS 77.265 + ENA NS 77.264
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentions dirhams, gold, "sending something little by little," and a sum of dinars. Joins: Alan Elbaum.
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14437List or tableENA NS 77.389
Primary language
Judaeo-Persian
Handwriting, too, suggests this is a late list (16th century?), and unlike the alms lists, donor lists, and accounts from the classical period.Similar lists occur in ENA NS 77.54, ENA NS 77.51, and ENA NS 77.388.
1. .......]......
2. ...].. יצחק כדר..[
3. הזאר הזאר תק
4. 5 5
5. יעקב ם..ר ם משה
6. עבדול [ה]ז[אר] הזאר
7. 4 4
8. יצחק רוסתם בך.יא
9. פרנס תק תק
10. תק
11. 4 4?
12. שמואל מ.[
13. מש..[
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14438Legal documentENA NS I.93b
Document date
6 Adar II 1546 Seleucid (26 February 1235 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Someone (name not preserved) releases Abū l-Fakhr b. Sayyid al-Ahl from any claim regarding a partnership (muʿāmala) they had involving wine and other products.
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14439Legal documentJRL Gaster heb. ms 1760/10
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Involves Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi known as Sayyid al-Kull. Mutual release or settlement of a dispute.
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14440List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 160
Document date
1248 Hijrī (31 May 1832–20 May 1833 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Signed and stamped by Maḥmūd Kāshif "Nāẓir Qism al-(....)".Needs examination for typology.
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14441Paraliterary textJRL L 21
David and on the verso the scribe alternated between the names Yosef b. Rafaʾel ʿUziʾel and Rafaʾel b.
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- early modern
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14442Legal documentMoss. IIIa,1
Document date
7 Tammuz 5409 Anno Mundi (17 June 1649 CE)
Bill of divorce. Probably a draft: although it is signed, there are interlinear corrections for the date and for the husband's name, and there is no statement attesting that it was delivered.
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14443Literary textMoss. V,282
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Verso: Halakhic discussion of a man who deposited something with somebody, who then died. Possibly from Kitāb al-Wadīʿa of Saʿadya Gaʾon. In the hand of Ḥalfon b.
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14444Legal documentMoss. Xa,3.7
Document date
Shawwāl 494 Hijrī (30 July 1101–27 August 1101 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Contains a Fatimid official's cipher-signature (ʿalāma) at the top, الحمد لله على نعمه (l. 2). Verso: 7–8 notations written at various angles relative to the writing on recto.
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14445Legal documentT-S 6J2.20
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Order of payment, instructing al-Raṣuy to give 5 nuqra dirhams and 15 wariq dirhams to Eliyyahu the Judge which he had loaned for [...], and 12 dirhams for the lighting, and 3 dirhams for "jarīd" (=lulavs?).
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14446LetterT-S 6J3.2
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
In particular he mentions his longing for his children and wishes to know in detail what happened to 'the master' (al-sayyid). Greetings to Abū Saʿd and his brother and Abū l-ʿIzz.
Recto
1. בעץ מא יגב אן יעמל [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] אן אמ [ . . . . . . . . . .
2. ואלקבול מן משורתהם אלסעידה אלא אלזמאן אלדי כרגת מעה ללודא
3. ועלי אל…
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14447LetterT-S 8.118
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The sender blames something on a youth/servant (al-ghulām).
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14448Legal documentT-S 8J6.17
Document date
First third of Ṭevet 1593 Seleucid (14 December 1281–23 December 1281 CE)
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew
Nothing is preserved from the body of the document except for the name of one of the parties: Abū Naṣr al-Levi. On verso there are two poems in Hebrew, one attributed to Shelomo the younger (הקטן) and one to Yehuda ha-Levi.
1. שהדותא דהות קדמנא אנן שהדיא דחתימין למטה
2. למא כאן פי אלעשר אלאול מחדש טבת שנת אלפא וחמש
3. מאה ותסעין ותלת שנין למניינא דרגילנא לממני ביה
4. הכא בעיר אלקאה…
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14449LetterT-S 8J16.11
Primary language
Hebrew
The writer sends greetings from his cousin Zakkai and from ‘all the sages of the two Yešivot’. There is a quote from Psalms 59:17, marked with supralinear dots.
1. כפתוחי חותם באקדח[י]ם . . . . . ק [
2. קלחים וכבין קוצים כסוחים כשושנה [
3. מלפניו נשלחים יצילם מצנים פחים ירצה מ[
4. החוחים יברכם בכל חשחים ממגד גרש יר[חים
5. …
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14450LetterT-S 8J16.17
Primary language
Hebrew
The text is almost completely vocalised and rhymes in -akh. It seems to be more of a poem than a letter; it breaks off mid-sentence, but there is no continuation on verso.
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