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Title Concerning a Letter from the Amir
Author N��jid b. Muslim
Summary In this letter N��jid b. Muslim writes ìAbd All�� b. Asìad about the governor���s (amër) request not to send ìAbd All�� scribe to the capital. He further informs him of something Yazëd b. ìAlë, an official in the capital, told him about. Finally, N��jid tells ìAbd All�� to refer anticipated protesters who had been assigned a task which seems to have involved being sent to the capital, to N��jid���s letter. The letter is complete and an address is written on Verso. ;All of the following documents are addressed to the same recipient: 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; 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, 152-154, 2004, Plate I
Inv. Id P.Mich.inv. 5558
Support/Dimensions 1 papyrus ; 16.7 x 10.8 cm
Condition Light brown papyrus written with a thin pen in black ink perpendicular to the fibers on Recto, parallel to the fibers on Verso. The original cutting lines are partially preserved on all four sides. The left bottom corner is broken off resulting in the loss of seven to nine letters in the seven bottom lines. The right bottom corner is broken off but has caused no damage to the text. There are some holes in the papyrus due to wear which have resulted in some damage to the text.
Lines Recto: 11 lines; Verso: 1 line
Recto/Verso Source of description: (1) Recto + Verso
Hands There are a few diacritical dots and one unconventional ligature (l. 5 alla).
Origin Fayyum
More from Fayyum
Language Arabic
Date VIIIth Cent. A.D.
More from the period between 700 CE and 799 CE
Note (general) The reference list mentions: Large Arabic Document; but we there are two papyri under this number (5558(1) and 5558(2)). 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 Fust��t; Documentary; Papyrus
Associated Names N��jid b. Muslim; ìAbd All�� b. Asìad; Yazëd b. ìAlë
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] N��jid b. Muslim to ìAbd All�� b. Asìad. Peace be upon you and I [praise for you ;3. God besides Whom there is no god but He. (vac.) ;4. Further, the am[ër, may God ] preserve him, wrote to me ;5. that the sc[ribe] of your district should not deliver to him anything. [And I inform you ;6. that if you have not sent him to Fust��t [then . . . ;7. And Yazëd b. ìAlë wrote me about this [ . . ] mentioning [ . . . ;8. [[if you have not sent him]] of those whom he has assigned over it. [So send them ;9. to Fust��t. And if against you [they protest?. . . ;10. or they dislike it, then inform them of every[thing I wrote to you. ;11. And peace be upon you and the mercy of [God. ;; ;Verso: ;From N��jid b. Muslim to ìAbd All�� b. Asìad