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Catalog Record: upenn.apis.95 [xml]

Title Lease of Land
Summary Side 1: Contract for the lease of land. Side 2: Coptic papyrus of unknown specific content.
Citations
Inv. Id P.Penn. Museum inv.E16245
Support/Dimensions 9.7 x 6.7cm. Upper left corner of what was probably a land contract. The left margin is broken at several places, with the loss of only a few letters; a 3 cm. wide margin has been left at the upper side. The right and lower sides are broken. The writing is blurred at in several places.
Origin Egypt
More from Egypt
Language Side 1: Arabic; Side 2: Coptic
Date 9th-10th CE
More from the period between 800 CE and 999 CE
Note (general) Text is on both sides. Side 1: 3 lines written against the fibers, with top and left margin visible. Side 2: 7 lines written with the fibers, no margins visible.
Note (local/note) Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Ellen W. Harrison Collection.
Subjects papyrus; documentary; legal
Associated Names Umm al-Haris; Muhammad
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

APIS Translation (English)

Side 1: [In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate]... 1. [the witnesses mentioned in this deed bore witness that X, son of Y, Z, son of A], and Umm al-Haris acknowledge before them and called [them] as witnesses 2. [upon themselves, in the full health of their minds and bodies and in their capacity of transacting business, that they shared in the own]ership of the four faddans of the goo[d] land 3. [known as +/-35 ] belonging to that which was registered under the name of Muhammad, son of Yusuf, for three dinars and a half ...........