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Title Standing Guarantee
Author N��jid b. Muslim
Summary N��jid b. Muslim writes ìAbd All��h that he has calculated what all the people, presumably of ìAbd All��h���s district owe in taxes. He also instructs ìAbd All��h to have some people stand guarantee for the (current) installment, presumably concerning these same taxes. ;The following documents are addresed to the same recipient: P.Mich.Inv. 5558(1); 5629; 5624; 5627; 5578(1); 5558(2); 5578(2); 5578(3); 5578(4); 5578(5); 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, 202-203, 2004, Plate XII
Inv. Id P.Mich.inv. 5578
Support/Dimensions 3 papyri ; 8 x 7.5; 2 x 3; 10.3 x 7 cm
Condition Three fragments of light brown papyrus, which are darkly discolored in the middle. The original cutting lines have been preserved at the top of fragments A and B and the bottom and right sides of fragment C. The three fragments form one letter of which the top right corner and the bottom left corner are missing as well as a large part in the middle of the papyrus. Several smaller holes in the papyrus have caused some damage to the fibers.
Lines Fragment A and B: 5 lines; Fragment C: 5 lines
Recto/Verso Source of description: (7)Fragmanet A; B; C Recto
Hands Written in black ink with a medium pen perpendicular to the fibers on Recto. 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 is blank
Subjects Documentary; Papyrus
Associated Names N��jid b. Muslim; ìAbd All��h b. Asìad
Images Recto thumbnail
Images Recto medium
Images Recto large
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

APIS Translation (English)

Fragments A/B ;1. In the name of] God [the Compassionate, the M]erciful. ;2. From] N��jid [b. Muslim to ìAb]d All��h b. Asìad. Peace ;3. be upon you and I praise for you] God besides Whom there is no [god but He. ;4. Further, . . .to] you the �Ǫ which I wrote [. . . ;5. . . . ] . . . you [ ;; ;Fragment C ;6. and [ . . . ;7. on [ . . . ;8. and I char[ge]d all the people [of your district . . . and I have informed you ;9. of their insta[ll]ment. And make them stand guarantee for [it . . . And peace be ;10. upon you and the blessings [of God.