Written in similar fashion as X.434, this Arabic papyrus has black ink and a cursive script with rounded letter terminals. Unlike its peer, this fragment contains ten lines of a part of a letter. The format of a letter is visible here through the use of phrases of greeting, benedictory to the addressee and his family.
Credit: Museum Accession
8th-9th century
Ink on papyrus
16.5cm
x.433
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