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APIS Translation (English)

OIM 17657, verso: (1) In the name of God the Beneficent the Merciful. (2) This registration writing is from Ali ibn Ali Ismail and Umar ibn Ali Umran the two muqataa of the village known as Zamakhir, one of the villages of the (lower) section (3) of the district of Ikhmim. The two wrote it for Musa ibn Isa the ( ). Verily you asked us and requested that we register two fields for you. (4) One of the two is the field belonging to the person Abu Baqtar the Big. The other field belongs to the person known as ( ibn ) And they are (5) the two fiel(ds without water wheels) fallow and (low lying, and esparto grasses and the side) of the land of black soil for 16 dinars, weight (6) of the new standard of the Treasury and its weight. And the sloping land of the muqataa is without survey for the tax for the year 274 ascribed (7) to the year 275. And I grant tha t to you. So sow with the blessing of God and the goodness of His aid. And you are res[pon]sible for that. (8) And this was written in the month of rabia the first in the year 275. Witness was given to that.