New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.118 recto
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Details

Ms.Heb.8333.118 recto
National Library of Israel
Bamiyan Papers
Silver (given following internal peer review)
New Persian (Arabic script)
Administrative
Administrative: Fiscal account/register

Physical Description

paper
17.0
10.0
6
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Content

A sheet from a ledger recording grain loans from the warehouse’s granary in amounts large enough to indicate that the loans were directed at large estates.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: None
None

People

Publications

  • Azad, Arezou with Firoozbakhsh, Pejman. 2025. The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
    Catalogue Number: 21
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

95
31/01/2024
27/05/2025

Citations

Arezou Azad
Pejman Firoozbakhsh
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Folios
1. recto
Tags
Transcription
Translation
Tags
Folio:

Administrative, Military and Legal Titles, Offices and Processes

Anbār (warehouse)
Sipahsālār
Tafṣīl (itemisation)

Agricultural Terms

Ghalla (grain)

Measurement Units

Kharwār
Kharwār
Kharwār
Kharwār
Kharwār
Kharwār
Transcription
Folio:
تفصیــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــل 1
غله کی از انبار ذخیره خرج شدست 2
[+ 1] 3
4 در وجـ[ـه] [در و]جه
5 [+ 2] [+ 1] کی بامیانیانر[ا]
وام داده شدست
6 پنجاه خروار پنجاه خربار
1 [+1] را وام داده سرخیش [+1] دوز
2 شدست یازده خربار آرد پانزده خربار
از جهت 9
تخم آسیاب داده شد 10
ست سفهسالار را 11
صد بیست سه خربار 12
جمله باشد 13
دویست چهل نه خربار 14
Translation
Folio:
1 Itemisation of
2 grain that has been disbursed from the granary
3 […+/-1]
4 [Disbursed] to: . [Disbursed] to:
5 [+/-1] [+/- 1] which to the Bamiyānīs
has been given as a loan
6 50 donkey-loads 50 donkey-loads
1 to [+/-1] a loan has been to sar-i Khīsh [+/− 1] ḍūz:
2 made for 11 donkey-loads     flour [in] 15 donkey-loads
9 Regarding:
10 threshed wheat has been given
11 to the sifahsālār
12 123 donkey-loads
13 giving a total of
14 249 donkey loads
 
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