1 folio : fragment, upper portion of folio, left edge lacking; titular inscription in left margin recto
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Notes:
The hand of the scribe who wrote this document is recognized as that of Ephraim ben Shemaryah, who presided as a court judge in ʻAzza and Fustat. A list of his documents was assembled by E. Bareket, Shafrir Mitsrayim, 1995, p. 257-259.; See also, above no. 337. He served as the head of the Erets Israeli community of Fustat, in documents between 1020-1047 (see Bareket, ibid., pp. 100-121).; Two sons of the deceased Naḥman the Doctor (הרופה sic!) from Aleppo declare to the court that they have received from Ephraim the Ḥaver ben [Shemarya], what their father deposited with him.; In the left margin is a title זכרון עדות, apparently added to the document for the purpose of indexing or filing among court documents. The correction, uneven rule, shorthand abbreviations, and relatively cursive hand, indicate that this is a draft copy.; On the verso is a different inscription, in Arabic characters, which was also written before the destruction of the folio. This document, probably also a draft, is a charter designating the authority and functions of the court of the Gaonate (here "Rais al-Metivta") of the Erets Israeli Jewish community.; Comparable to a charter drawn by Ephraim ben Shemarya upon his reappointment in 1028, found in Cambridge TS 13J 7 fol. 25 (published by Goitein, ibid. pp. 84-86). This may have been the primary inscription.; Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and Arabic. Hebrew
Physical Location:
Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 354
Collection:
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library)
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