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21.
  • Letter from Najidh ibn Muslim to 'Abd Allah ibn As'ad. Other letters written to/from these persons are in the collections of the University of Michigan and the Oriental Institute, Chicago. On the verso, 1 line ς: from Abdallah ibn As'ad to Najidh ibn Muslim. Recto written ς

Title:
Letter from Najidh ibn Muslim to 'Abd Allah ibn As'ad. Other letters written to/from these persons are in the collections of the University of Michigan and the Oriental Institute, Chicago. On the verso, 1 line ς: from Abdallah ibn As'ad to Najidh ibn Muslim. Recto written ς
Language:
Arabic
References:
Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Shaping a Muslim State: The World of a Mid-Eighth-Century Egyptian Official. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013, pp. 428-431. (Item incorrectly cited as AM 13995 (8) in the List of Illustrations.).

24.
  • Letter fragment

Title:
Letter fragment
Language:
Arabic
Date:
0700-0899

27.
  • Amulet(?). Magical text written in script similar to Nabataean/Early Islamic-Arabic scripts (see A. Grohmann, Arabische Paläographie II, Wien, 1971, between 72-73). Several lines in red ink (ll. 5-7). On the verso traces of 3 lines of Greek

Title:
Amulet(?). Magical text written in script similar to Nabataean/Early Islamic-Arabic scripts (see A. Grohmann, Arabische Paläographie II, Wien, 1971, between 72-73). Several lines in red ink (ll. 5-7). On the verso traces of 3 lines of Greek
Language:
Arabic
References:
Venetia Porter, “Stones to Bring Rain?: Magical Inscriptions in Linear Kufic on Rock Crystal Amulet-Seals,” in Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, eds., Rivers of Paradise: Water in Islamic Art and Culture (New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press, 2009). and Unpublished.

28.
  • Account

Title:
Account
Language:
Arabic
Date:
0800-0999

30.
  • Letter. Official

Title:
Letter. Official
Language:
Arabic
Date:
0800-0999