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Title Returning a Fugitive and Mules
Author N��jid b. Muslim
Summary This letter is divided into two parts, not only topic wise, but also by the lay-out of the letter. N��jid b. Muslim starts his letter to ìAbd All��h b. Asìad announcing that some guards (hurr��s) came to him. The relationship between the guards and the s��hib mentioned on the next line is not certain, but they probably all belonged to the same community or town whose name is lost in the lacunae at the end of line 5. N��jid then mentions someone���s runaway or stolen mules perhaps belonging to a certain Kh��lid asking that those be returned to him. In the second half of the letter N��jid writes that a certain Marcus who had been holding a safe-conduct (am��n) had absconded. N��jid asks ìAbd All��h to return Marcus to him, ending the letter with the recommendation that ìAbd All��h is to complete these tasks without delay or obstruction. The letter is written by ìAbd al-Ra��m��n, a scribe in N��jid���s chancellery, who also wrote 4. The other persons named in this letter: Anio, Kh��lid and Marcus do not appear in any other letter of the corpus.
Citations Sijpesteijn, Petra Marieke, Shaping a Muslim State. Papyri related to a mid-eighth-century Egyptian official, Ph.D. Diss., Princeton University, 179-183, 2004, Plate VII
Inv. Id P.Mich.inv. 5627
Support/Dimensions 1 papyrus ; 13.9 x 23.5 cm
Condition Light brown papyrus. The original cutting lines have been preserved at the top and bottom. The left and right sides are broken off resulting in a loss of two to three letters on the right and two to three words on the left side.
Lines Recto: 16 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 Recto, parallel to the fibers on the verso. The ink has faded in places. There are some diacritical dots. In several places, the scribe extended below the line before writing the final tooth of letters (l. 6 s��hibuhu; katabtu; l. 12 yaghiba; l. 15 rahmat).
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
Note (related) P.Mich.Inv. 5558(1); 5629; 5626(C); 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)
Subjects Ihn��s; Documentary; Papyrus
Associated Names N��jid b. Muslim; ìAbd All��h b. Asìad; Kh��lid; Anio; Marcus
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 Merciful, the Compassionate. ;2. From N��j]id b. Muslim to ìAbd All[��h b. Asìad. ;3. Peace be upon] you and I praise fo[r you God besides Whom ;4. there is no go]d but He. ;5. Fur]ther, some guards have come to me [ . . . ;6. . . . ] and its Ȗ��hib and I have already writt[en ;7. . . . ] to Khalid concerning his mules, for he . . . [ . . . ;8. . . . ] in Q����ih? in the pagarchy of Ih[n��s . . . ;9. . . . si]nce he arrived it was said to him: Anio t[he . . . ;10. . . . return] to me his mu[l]es. (vac.) ;11. And he] reminded me that Marcus is absent [ . . . ;12. . . .] he has a safe-conduct and he absconded [ . . . ;13. . . . ] so send and return him to me [ . . . ;14. . . . ] and let there not be any de[la]y [or post]ponem[ent or putting off of the matters. ;15. And peace be] upon you and God���s mercy. ;16. Written by] ìAbd al-Rahm��n on Thurs[day. ; ;Verso: ;From N��jid b. Mus]lim to ìAbd All��h b. Asìad