New Persian: Afghanistan National Archives, Firuzkuh 65
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Firuzkuh 65
Silver (given following internal peer review)
New Persian (Arabic script)
Administrative: List
Warzīkh

Physical Description

paper
Incomplete, blank ink.
2
horizontal

Content

A fragmentary list concerning the measurement of different plots of land owned/managed by the muqaddams of Warzīkh. The land was measured in khufch, which seems to be a vernacular for an unstandardised measurement made by a stick, the length of which may have been locally determined.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: None
None

People

  • Abū Bakr b. Aḥmad
  • Sulaymān b. Aḥmad
  • Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan
  • Muḥammad b. Masʿūd
  • Abū Bakr b. ʿAlīcha

Publications

  • Khwaja Muhammad and Nabi Saqee, Barg-hāy az yak faṣl, yā asnād-i tārīkhī-yi Ghur (Kabul: Saʿīd 1388/2009) (Pages: 106-107)
  • Husseini S.R. 2021. "The Muqaddam Represented in the Pre-Mongol Persian Documents from Ghur." Afghanistan 4/2: 91–113. (Pages: 101-102)

Related Shelfmarks

IEDC Data

249
30/09/2024
24/02/2025

Citations

Ofir Haim
Arezou Azad, Nabi Saqee
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Folios
1. recto
Transcription
Folio:
اسباب مقدمان ورزیخ 1
معلوم کرده شد و مساحت کرده [آمد] 2
بخفچ دوازده گز نیم در دوازده گز نیم 3
4 محمد بن الحسن
چهار صد [ + 1 خفچ]
سلیمان احمد
صد سی یک خفچ
چهار دانگ نیم
ابوبکر احمد
صد هفده خفچ
5   ابوبکر علیچه
صد شست پنج خفچ
محمد مسعود
هشتاد
هفت خفچ
Translation
Folio:
1 The property of the muqaddams of [the village of] Warzīkh
2 was identified and measured
3 by khufch, [yielding a surface area of] 12.5 gaz by 12.5 gaz.
4 Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan
Four hundred [+ 1 khufch]
Sulaymān b. Aḥmad
131 khufch [and] 4.5 dāng
Abū Bakr b. Aḥmad
117 khufch
5 Abū Bakr b. ʿAlīcha
165 khufch
Muḥammad b.
Masʿūd
87 khufch
 
New Persian: Afghanistan National Archives, Firuzkuh 65: Folio (recto)
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