| Title | Announcing a Delivery |
|---|---|
| Author | N��jid b. Muslim |
| Summary | In this fragmentary letter N��jid b. Muslim writes to ìAbd All��h b. Asìad that he has sent him something or someone. He also mentions Zayd, perhaps referring to ìAbd All��h���s servant by that name who is mentioned in letter 29. The end of the letter is missing. The address is written on Verso. ;All of the following documents are addressed to the same recipient: P.Mich.Inv. 5558(1); 5629; 5624; 5627; 5578(1); 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; 5609; 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, 191-192, 2004, Plate VIII |
| Inv. Id | P.Mich.inv. 5578 |
| Support/Dimensions | 1 papyrus ; 20 x 9.7 cm |
| Condition | Light brown papyrus. The original cutting lines have been preserved on the top, left and right sides. The bottom half and left bottom corner are broken off. There are some small holes in the papyrus that have not damaged the text. |
| Lines | Recto: 7 lines; Verso: 1 line |
| Recto/Verso | Source of description: (2) Recto + Verso |
| Hands | Written with a thick pen in black ink which is effaced in some places, perpendicular to the papyrus fibers on Recto, parallel to the fibers on Verso. There are diacritical dots in one place (l. 6 Zayd). |
| Origin | Fayyum |
| Language | Arabic |
| Date | VIIIth Cent. A.D. |
| 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 | Documentary; Papyrus |
| Associated Names | N��jid b. Muslim; ìAbd All��h b. Asìad; Zayd |
| Images | Recto thumbnail |
| Images | Recto medium |
| Images | Recto large |
| Images | Verso thumbnail |
| Images | Verso medium |
| Images | Verso large |
| License |  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License. |
Recto: ;1. In the name of God the Compassionate, the Merciful. ;2. From N��jid b. Muslim to ìAbd All��h b. Asìad. Peace be upon you ;3. and I praise for you God besides Whom there is no god but He. ;4. Further, I have already sent to you [ . . . ;5. we . . . and we ask God that He tre[ats us well and you and that He . . . ;6. and from Zayd . . . and [ . . . ;7. from the [ . . . ] the . . . [ . . . ;;Verso: ;From N��jid b. Muslim to ìAbd All��h b. Asìad
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