Bancroft Library, Berkeley: Berk. 154, recto
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This document, dated to the year 31 or (assuming the post-Yazdgerd era) 682/3 CE, is a kind of cheque, entitling its bearer to a certain collection of agricultural products, with a certain cash value, which has been collected to pay a certain tax.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: 682-3 (0682 - 0683)
  • Post-Yazdgard Era (PYE): Spandarmad 31 (0031-12)

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Berk. 154, recto
Bancroft Library, Berkeley
Qom Papers
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
Middle Persian (Pahlavi script)
Administrative

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parchment
No tears, with two bullae.
19.5
8.5

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Publications

  • Weber, Dieter. 2013. “Taxation in Pahlavi Documents from Early Islamic Times.” In Commentationes Iranicae: Сборник статей к 90-летию Владимира Ароновича Лившица, edited by S. R. Tokhtas’yev and P. B. Lur’ye, 171–81. St. Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya. (Pages: 176-177)
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been adapted from this publication.
  • Benfey, Thomas. 2024. "Middle Persian documents and the making of the Islamic fiscal system: problems and prospects." BSOAS 87: 395 - 420. (Pages: 411-414)
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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1062
10/01/2025
13/11/2025

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Thomas Benfey
The transcription and translation have been adapted from a previous publication (see Publications)
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Folio:
1 ēn māh Spandarmad ī sāl 31                
2 ud rōz Day pad Ādur ^wizārd^ wīr-ud-gīr ī 
3 pad tis ī yazdānbānag zād xrad-windād ōstāndār 
4 pad kulān [?] az framān ī ōstāndār 
5 pad bāǰ ī xwāstag az wahāg ī 
6 gandum ī pad pahrist ī g[rīw] 1 pad drahm 1 
7 s[atēr] 38 drahm 3 ud az wahāg ī 
8 wēnōg ī pad pahrist ī g[rīw] 1 
9 pad drahm 1 s[tēr] 5 az wahāg ī 
10 aspast ī pad pahrist ī 30 [gerd] [?] 
11 pad drahm 1 s(tēr) 1 drahm 1 hāmist s[tēr] 45 
12 ud čak ī pad čehel ud panj stēr ba-aband [?] 
13 āwišt 
Translation
Folio:
1 This month Spandarmad [12th month] of the year 31 [682/3 CE] 
2 and the day Day pad Ādur [8th day]: to be paid in good faith 
3 regarding the affairs of the ōstāndār [?], protected by the gods and having innate wisdom, 
4 in detail [?] at the ōstāndār’s demand, 
5 for the money tax, from the value of 
6 wheat in the pahrist, 1 grīw [worth] 1 dirham, 
7 38 stēr 3 dirhams. And from the value of 
8 lentils in the pahrist 1 grīw [worth] 1 
9 dirham, 5 stēr. From the value of 
10 alfalfa in the pahrist, 30 [bundles?] 
11 [worth] 1 dirham, 1 stēr 1 dirham, altogether 45 stēr. 
12 And the čak which is for forty and five stēr is 
13 sealed [from 12] without guarantee [?].