Text 494
- Provenance
- unknown
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- unknown
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Ägyptisches Museum/Papyrussammlung, Berlin
- Museum no.
- P. 13002
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: legal
- Language
- Arabic
- Content
- release of slave (tadbir) Mubarak by Yaḥyā b. Naṣr, goldsmith
- Date
- 23 July 916
- Notes
- couple of identical witnesses appear also in P. Berol. 11279
all elements of date agree
bought by Borchardt in 1908
- Material
- leather
- Object dimensions
- H: 67.5; W: 25.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- red-brown
- Text colour
- Lines
- 52
- Height of letters
- Description
- lines 1–9 written in one hand, remaining lines written in forty-two different hands - witnesses
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- Date
- 23 July 916
- Chronological systems
- Era of the Saracens
day of the week
Islamic calendar
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- "on Tuesday, when nineteen nights passed of (the month of) Muḥarram, year three hundred and four" (l. 9)
- Months
- Muḥarram
- Weakdays
- Tuesday
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- goldsmith (al-ṣā’gh): ll. 2, 8, 44, 45
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Grohmann 1935, pp. 19–30, pls. 2–3
- Other editions
- Other publications
- CSCN, pp. 165, 170, table 25 on p. 171
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