Title: Document Confirming the Emancipation of a Slave (‘Itq)
Date: dated Sha‘ban 160 (May – June 777)
Location: Khurasan
Materials: ink on light-coloured parchment; bulla of red clay
Dimensions: 28.1 x 18.1cm
Accession Number: DOC 11 [AR 14]
Other Notes:
Arabic document.
The document (‘itq) confirms that al-Harith ibn Malik has emancipated a slave belonging to him called Nufah and her three children, al-‘Abbas, Hatim and a girl Sindiyya. Eleven witnesses are named.
The document was sealed with a bulla bearing a number of seal impressions. One has the name ‘Harith ibn Malik’, another the name ‘Muhammad’ with a six pointed star, and a third ‘May God be praised’, repeated. Besides the textual impressions, the bulla also contains a seal impression representing a quadruped, blank impressions and thumbnail marks.
Bibliography:
G. Khan, Arabic Documents from Early Islamic Khurasan, Studies in the Khalili Collection, volume V, London 2007, no.30, pp.155–7.
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