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Title Concerning the Repayment of a Debt
Summary In this letter from Muslim b. ìAmr to Ish��q b. ìAt���� several unrelated commercial transactions involving also ìAbd All��h b. Asìad are discussed. Ish��q is to buy flax from ìAbd All��h with the money he owes Muslim, and to obtain a quittance for it. Ish��q probably presented this letter to ìAbd All��h together with his payment which explains its presence in the latter���s archive. ;The following documents are addressed to the same recipient: P.Mich.Inv. 5558(1); 5629; 5624; 5627; 5578(1); 5558(2); 5578(2); 5578(3); 5578(4); 5578(5); 5578(7); 5578(6); 5610; 5613(B); 5625 (A); 5620; 5619; 5613(A); 5632; 5578(9); 5622; 5621; 5623; 5625(1); 2526(B); 5631; 5578(8).
Citations Sijpesteijn, Petra Marieke, Shaping a Muslim State. Papyri related to a mid-eighth-century Egyptian official, Ph.D. Diss., Princeton University, 256-262, 2004, Plate XXV
Inv. Id P.Mich.inv. 5609
Support/Dimensions 1 papyrus ; 25 x 17.5 cm
Condition Light brown large papyrus written with a thin pen in dark black ink perpendicular to the fibers on Recto, parallel to the fibers on Verso. The ink has disappeared in some places. The original cutting lines have been preserved on all four sides.
Lines Recto: 15 lines; Verso: 1 line
Recto/Verso Source of description: Recto + Verso
Hands There are some diacritical dots. Ibn is written with initial alif several times in this letter (lines 5, 10).
Origin Fayuum
More from Fayuum
Language Arabic
Date VIIIth Cent. A.D.
More from the period between 700 CE and 799 CE
Note (general) Edition's Side A is Recto; Side B Verso according to APIS guidelines.
Note (general) Location: Ann Arbor
Note (general) Pub. status: Recto + Verso
Subjects Alexandria; Documentary; Papyrus
Associated Names Muslim <b.> ìAmr; Ish��q b. ìAt����; ìAli b. Khawli; ìAbd All��h b. Asìad; Ibn ìIy��d b. ìAwsajah; ìUbayd
Images Recto medium
Images Recto large
Images Verso medium
Images Verso large
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

APIS Translation (English)

Recto: ;1. In the name of God the Compassionate, the Merciful. ;2. From Muslim <b.> ìAmr to Ish��q b. ìAt����. Peace be upon you and I praise for you God besides Whom there is no god but He. ;3. Further, may God preserve us and you from all evil and may He make paradise our and your resting place ;4. through His mercy. And you have bought through me flax of ìAli b. Khawli as you already learned in Alexandria ;5. six . . . for a din��r. And I wrote to ìAbd All��h b. Asìad that he give you what ;6. he has of . . . flax. And ìAbd All��h knows what the debt he is owed is and (what) he gave ;7. to you. And I have written to ìAbd All��h b. Asìad that he will receive the price from you. And we have billed (you for) ;8. your . . . since I purchased them, for you have paid us from its price only four din��rs ;9. which you have paid to Ibn ìIy��d b. ìAwsajah. So when this letter of mine reaches you, pay ;10. to ìAbd All��h b. Asì��d its price and do not delay it. And obtain from him the quittance ;11. for what you pa[i]d to him and do not delay that. For the judge has already ordered us to gather it and he has exacted it from us. ;12. And take from ìAbd All��h only for the amount that you owe (us) until this letter of mine reaches you, ;13. and I receive all and give him a quittance for it. And if the load will not come from you so that we receive it, we will ask it from ;14. ìUbayd. And I know, God willing, that you surely will not harm me in any way. ;15. And peace be upon you and God���s mercy. ;;Verso: ;From Muslim b. ìAmr to Ish��q b. ìAt���� the �Ǫ