מסמך משפטי: T-S NS 223.115

תיאור

Verso: Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a distinctive large hand with loops on the ends of the lameds. The witnesses attest "that we know with a complete knowledge. . . that Salāma b. Avraham used to serve Sahlān the head of [...] of God (= Sahlān b. Avraham?) and that we know that Salāma's father and mother are residents of al-Wāḥ al-Juwwānī (אלואח אלגואני = "the inner oasis") and that they [moved?] from there to Upper Egypt (al-Ṣaʿīd) and that they are not from Fustat (מצר)." The name אלואח אלגואני does not seem to be attested elsewhere. It may be the equivalent of al-Wāḥ al-Dākhila. Medieval Arabic geographical works refer to inner (dākhila) and outer (khārija) districts of the oasis region of western Egypt; the inner district included not only present-day al-Dākhila but also al-Farāfra and al-Baḥriyya (see De Troia, "The Oases of Egypt's Western Desert from Byzantine to Islamic Rule," Journal of Late Antiquity 15.1 (277–303)).