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Title Request for Taxes from ìAbd All��h���s District
Author N��jid b. Muslim
Summary N��jid b. Muslim lets ìAbd All��h b. Asìad in this letter know what the people of his district have to pay of the total amount of taxes for the Fayum presumably imposed by the governor (amir). N��jid instructs ìAbd All��h to send the taxes with N��jid���s own messenger, or with the messengers of the villages or with those responsible for the collection and transportation of the taxes so that he can hand over the complete tax-installment (tabl). The remainder of the letter suggests that N��jid wants the people of ìAbd All��h���s district to cover the maintenance costs of someone, presumably the tax-collector sent by him, perhaps the same person as N��jid���s secretary mentioned in the letter. The letter is complete and part of the address appears on Verso.;The following documents are addresed to the same recipient: 5558(1); 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, 156-160, 2004, Plate II
Inv. Id P.Mich.inv. 5629
Support/Dimensions 1 papyrus ; 15 x 19.1 cm
Condition Light brown papyrus. The original cutting edges are preserved on the top, left and bottom sides. The right side is broken off with a loss of two to three words at the beginning of all lines. On the left upper corner a hole caused by the disappearance of some papyrus fibers has resulted in the loss of one or two words in one line.
Lines Recto :14 lines; Verso: 1 line
Recto/Verso Source of description: Recto + Verso
Hands Written in black ink with a thin pen perpendicular to the fibers on the recto, parallel to the fibers on Verso. The ink is chipped off or faded in some places and has caused one complete line to be completely unreadable. There are no diacritical dots.
Origin Fayyum
More from Fayyum
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 Fayum; Documentary; Papyrus
Associated Names N��jid b. Muslim; ìAbd All��h b. Asìad
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 n[ame of God the Merciful, the Compassionate. ;2. From N��jid b. Musl]im to ìAbd All��h b. As��ad. Peace ;3. be upon you and] I praise for you God besides Whom ;4. there is no god but He.] ;5. Further, the amir, may God preserve him wrote me with what] is owed by the pe[ople ;6. of the pagarchy of the] Fayum and I have determined that the people of your district owe ;7. . . . ] So hurry it with my messenger or the messenger ;8. of . . .] every village or (with) whomever is (appointed) over that until ;9. . . . and] we have handed over its installment. And if you are able ;10. to . . . ] my scribe whomever helps you, until you send ;11. this, then d]o so. And if there is a messenger here with me ;12. . . . ] and may they hurry (to pay) him what they owe so that ;13. . . . f]rom its inhabitants his allowance. And peace be upon you ;14. and the merc]y of God. ;;Verso: ;From N��jid b. Muslim [to ìAbd All��h b. As��ad;Concerning the Fayum.