Detail View: Papyri Collection: Letter with good wishes

Reference number: 
Arabic P Add 347
Side: 
recto
Image Number: 
JRL022950tr
Image Title: 
Letter with good wishes
Subject: 
Letters
Citation reference: 
P. Ryl. Arab. 2 347
Description: 
A soiled and badly damaged brown fragment. A private letter with good wishes, with the name Abu al-Husayn mentioned. Four lines of text in black ink across the vertical fibres.
Date created: 
9th-10th century [3rd-4th]
Time period covered: 
500 - 1000 CE
Language: 
Arabic
Language code: 
ara
Item height: 
150 mm
Item width: 
93 mm
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support material: 
Papyrus
Current repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Category: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Fragments
Sub-Category: 
Correspondence
Image rights: 
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights: 
The University of Manchester Library
Image technique: 
Scanned from colour transparency by Gten, May 2005
Metadata language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Papyri