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Papyrus Fragment

This papyrus displays ten lines on one side and three lines on the other. It is written in an abbreviated cursive script in black ink. The fragment contains the formula of a letter: it starts with thanking god and his prophet Muhammed, then sends greetings to the addressee and listing his family members, and finally arrives to the author’s main point, which is missing here.

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8th-10th century
Ink on papyrus
8.3 x 8.9cm
x.436.3
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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