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Title Letter Related to Administrative Matters
Author N��jid b. Muslim
Summary N��jid b. Muslim writes ìAbd All��h b. Asìad that he has heard that some inhabitants of the villages under the latter���s responsibility have caused him harm in some way and that he will send ìAbd All��h some official presumably to help him deal with the villagers. N��jid further instructs ìAbd All��h to send Yaz_d to allocate tax-quotas on the inhabitants of one village, but not to credit him with these. N��jid ends his letter with the request that ìAbd All��h write him concerning the men of the village. The end of the letter is missing and the address is written on the verso. ;The following documents are addresed to the same recipient: P.Mich.Inv. 5558(1); 5629; 5624; 5627; 5578(1); 5558(2); 5578(2); 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, 193-196, 2004, Plate X
Inv. Id P.Mich.inv. 5578
Support/Dimensions 1 papyrus ; 20 x 10 cm
Condition Light brown papyrus. The original cutting lines are preserved on the top and left sides. Written with a thin pen in black ink which is effaced in some places, perpendicular to the fibers on Recto, parallel to the fibers on Verso. The papyrus fibers are frayed on the right side which has resulted in a loss of seven to ten letters at the beginning of lines 1-6. One large hole and a smaller one have resulted in a loss of text in the middle part of the last four lines. The bottom half is broken off.
Lines Recto: 11 lines; Verso: 1 line
Recto/Verso Source of description: (3) Recto + Verso
Hands 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 Documentary; Papyrus
Associated Names N��jid b.] Muslim; ìAbd All��h b. Asìad
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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��h b. Asìad. Peace be upon you ;3. and I] praise for you God besides Whom there is no god but He. ;4. Further,] it reached me that some of the people of the villages came into conflict with you. ;5. And I will] se[nd] one of the officials? who is with him. So send out ;6. to . . . ] Yazid that he assigns the quota for himself to everyone ;7. of] the village inhabitants. But let this not be deposited to his credit and do not [ . . . ] for him ;8. And I ordered him to . . . [ . . . ] me [ . . . so] write ;9. {me} if men from the village [ . . . ] the man ;10. has this. The . . .[ . . . ] himself ;11. . . . ]k[ . . . ; ;Verso: ;From N��jid b. Muslim to ìAbd All��h b. Asìad