Inventory of Synagogue Objects and Donors (Fustāt, Egypt)

On the first day of the week, which is the eighth of the month of Tammuz, of the year 1391 [1080 CE] according to the system of counting which we are accustomed to using in Fustāt, Egypt, which is situated on the river Nile, we [ . . . ] assembled as a court in order to take account of what is in the [Jerusalemite] synagogue, under the control of…

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This inventory details some of the possessions held by a synagogue in Fustāt (Old Cairo). It identifies many of the donors, but the final item on the list is of doubtful ownership. Many of the items owned by the synagogue are cloth; siqlatun is a term that can denote scarlet but was used for silk cloths more generally. The other side of this document held a Karaite marriage document. Ellipses indicate lacunae in the manuscript. The crossed-out word was struck out in the original.

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