תיאור
הצהרת קבלת כסף. בכתב ערבי. מיקום: הפיום. תאריך: יום שני, ד' שעבאן 438 AH (3 פברואר 1047 לסה'נ). ע'אלב בן חבאסה מאשר קבלת יתרה (12 דינרים) מהתשלום הראשון מאבו ע'אלב עבדאללה בן מנצור, הגזבר בדיוואן הח'ראג'. הפנים והגב שומשו מחדש לשירה עברית.
Princeton Geniza Project description: Declaration of receipt of money. In Arabic script. Dated: Monday, 4 Shaʿbān 438 AH, which is 3 February 1047 CE. Ghālib b. Ḥabāsa, son of the amīr Murād al-Dawla, acknowledges the receipt of the remainder (12 dinars) of the first installment of a due payment from Abū Ghālib ʿAbdallāh b. Manṣūr, the cashier in the land-tax office (al-jahbadh bi-dīwān al-kharāj). Recto and verso were reused for Hebrew poetry. In the commentary on line 6 of his edition, Khan notes that "half the full amount is stated in order to forestall any attempt at falsification. In the Fāṭimid period such a practice is found in documents written in the Fayyūm but not in those written in Fusṭāṭ." Some documents issued outside the Fayyūm (e.g. ENA 2805.4 PGPID 715) do mention the half-amount structure, however, therefore its presence here is not indicative of the Fayyūm specifically as a place of origin for the document. (Information from Khan and CUDL.)