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מכתב Unknown (excavation images 1974_P04_02A-03 and 1974_P04_03A-04)What's in the PGP
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תיאור
Letter from Muḥammad b. Abū Ḥayy to his "father" the leader (ʿaqīd) Danī b. Kannān. Complaining about people who have interfered with the ploughing on the island, including by taking the plough to the town of Edfu. Alternate readings (ASE): - r3: ومن instead of وثبت, as in doc. 40 (PGPID 40712) l. 8. - r6: ما اصف لك in the context of something distressing typically means "I cannot describe to you what happened...." and is then followed by the description anyway (apophasis). - r7: وكان لنا ("we had") instead of وخاف لنا. - r8: وابو الخير ("and Abū l-Khayr") instead of واتو الخبر and واخذوا ("they took") instead of واجروا. - r9: وجسروا علينا ("they acted brazenly/audaciously with us") instead of وخروا علينا; cf. Friedman, dictionary, p. 113. - r11: ساعة واحدة ("a single hour") instead of ساعة followed by a new clause beginning واخذه. - margins: the right margin (unusually) appears to be a continuation of the top margin rather than vice versa. Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 38
תגים
Editor: Khan, Geoffrey
Translator: Khan, Geoffrey (in English)
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Recto
- 1 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- كتابى اليك يا والدي والعزيز علي وعندي اطال الله بقاك وا[دام عزك
- وتاييدك وسعادتك وسلامتك وثبت حسن توفيقه لا اخلاك وجـ[ـعلني
- من كل سو فداك وفي كل خير جداك والذى اعلمك به انى ما امسكت النضر الى
- حجاج وسالت عنه وذكروا لى انه فى بلاد بحري وانا ان شا الله اجتمع
- به واطلب منه الذى ذكرت لي وما اصف لك ما جرا علي من عبد الرحمن
- حراثك الذي في الجزيرة طرد الرجل الذى جعلته انت وخاف لنا
- من لا نبيع منصور واتو الخبر واجروا المحراث من الجريزة ومروا
- به الى بلد اتفو وخروا علينا وما انا معهم فى حال قليل ولك فى ذلك
- علو الراي والله الله ثم الله ان كان عندكم من يطلب المجي الى الكسب
- فلا توخروا ساعة واخذه في الزرع اسبوعين وهو ينحصد في خمسة عشرة
- من شهر برمهات فلا توخروا الا تجريها والسلام
Recto - top margin
- واما شان المرض تقدم دوا بعد ما اتسلموا عينه
- ] الذى اخذه لعبيد الله بن عزام طلب حاجة له يقبظوها والسلام
Recto - right margin
- وعلى من سال عنا السلام وعلى ابو شاكر السلام
Recto
- In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
- (This is) my letter to you, my father, who is dear to me, may God prolong your life and cause your power,
- your support, your happiness and your good health to endure, may He establish His granting of prosperity, may He not leave you alone, may He make me
- your redemption from all evil and may He bestow upon you every goodness. What I (write to) inform you of is that I have not ceased looking out for
- Ḥajjāj. I have asked about him and people have told me that he is in a town in the north. God willing, I shall
- meet him and shall request from him what you mentioned to me. I would like to describe to you what has happened to me due to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān,
- your plougher, who is in the island. He has dismissed the man whom you yourself appointed and Manṣūr feared
- that we could not sell. They gave notification and moved the plough from the island and took it
- to the town of Edfu. They shat upon us. I am not with them in any way. Please could you make
- the authoritative decision with regard to this. By God, by God, by God, if you have somebody with you who would like to come to earn a wage,
- do not delay for a moment and engage him in cultivation for two weeks. The harvest will be on the fifteenth
- of the month of Baramhāt. Do not delay carrying it out. Greetings.
Recto - top margin
- As for the matter of the illness, bring medicine after they have received cash for it
- [ ] which he has taken for ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAzzām. He asked him to arrange for some requested item to be given to him. Greetings.
Recto - right margin
- Greetings to those who have asked after us. Greetings to Abū Shākir.
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Verso - address
- بلا]د المريس ...... الى دنى بن كنان العقيد
- اطال الله بقاه
- من ولده محمد بن ابو حي
- جعل فداه
Verso - address
- [The land] of Marīs… to the leader Danī ibn Kannān,
- may God grant him a long life.
- From his son, Muḥammad ibn ʾAbū Ḥayy,
- may he be his redemption.