COLLECTION NAME:
Papyri Collection
Record
Reference number:
Arabic P B III 10 (A r)
Side:
recto
Obverse:
Arabic P B III 10 (A v)
Image Number:
JRL18020005
Image Title:
Letter from a Tax Collector
Series title:
Private Letters Complete or Nearly Complete
Description:
Letter from a tax collector, on whom the provision of food (for troops or police) has been imposed and who has had difficulty in obtaining the dinar from one of the tax-payers.
Language:
Arabic
Language code:
ara
Item height:
290 mm
Item width:
150 mm
Technique used:
Handwriting
Support material:
Papyrus
Bibliographic Reference:
Margoliouth, D.S., Catalogue of Arabic Papyri in the John Rylands Library (Manchester), 1933)
Current repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Former repository:
Lindsay family, Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Category:
Manuscripts
Image rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Image technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date image captured:
2018-02-01
Date: issued:
2018-02
Metadata language:
eng-GB
Letter from a Tax Collector
