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Sims-Williams Ss
Sam Fogg Rare Books
Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
Bactrian (Greek-based script)
Legal
Legal: Loan / Debt

Physical Description

leather
Written on leather, the writing surface shows fold lines and tears.
5.7
11.0

Content

This document is a fragmentary loan contract, in which three market traders of Amber borrowed two hundred silver dirhams from another group of market traders in Amber for two months.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: 31 May 698
  • The calendar of the Bactrian era: 1 New-year 476 (0476-01-01)

People

  • Fin[z-lad(?)]
  • Akhsh son of Y[amsh-bandag(?)]
  • -tis son of Berd

Publications

  • Sims-Williams, Nicholas. 2005. Bactrian Legal Documents from 7th and 8th Century Guzgan. Bulletin of the Asia Institute 15. (Pages: 18-19)
    Catalogue Number: Ss
  • Sims-Williams, Nicholas (ed.). 2012. Bactrian documents from Northern Afghanistan. I: Legal and economic documents (Studies in the Khalili Collection 3). Revised edition. Vol. VI. London: The Nour Foundation. (Pages: 96-97)
    Catalogue Number: Ss
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

6
02/12/2023
08/08/2024

Citations

Nicholas Sims-Williams
Zhen Zheng
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Folio:
1 ι αχϸονο υʹ οʹ ϛʹ μα̣υο νωγοσαρδο αβο ιαρ̣γαοο ρω̣σ̣ο […… παρ-]
2 ̣οβωστιγο μαλαβο αμβηρ̣ο̣ π̣ι̣σο βαγο ρα̣μ̣ο̣σ̣ητ̣ο̣ ο̣δο π̣ι̣σο χϸ̣[ο ……]π̣α̣ρ[……]
3 τισο βηρδ̣ο πορο βωχαρο̣ ο̣δ̣ο̣ μα̣ν̣ο αχϸο̣ ι̣[αμϸοβανδαγ]ο π[ορο οδο μανο] φιν̣[ζολαδο ……]
4 αμβηροσιγο οασαροσιγανο οδο ι μαχαγγο β̣[ραδο] ζα̣δακο φ[ορζανδανο ασαφαγο …… αμβηρο]-
5 σιγηλο οασαροσιγο οδασο ταοοα[γγο ]β̣ρ̣α̣δ̣ο̣ ζαδακο̣ δ̣δ̣ρ̣αχμ̣ο̣ [……]
6 σαδο σʹ παρο ζαμανοβαστιγ̣ο [πιδο δογγο] ι̣α̣οοα̣ρ̣ο κοοαδο πιτα̣δ̣(δ)ι̣μ̣[α]ζ[ο ……]
7 α̣ν̣δορο οιταβο βʹ μαυ̣ο̣ […… ο]τ̣ο καλδο Δογγο ασταδο κο̣ο̣α̣δ̣ο μα̣[χο …… υι]-
8 [ρδδι]ι̣ο̣ μ̣α̣υο αβο ιαργαοο αβο ωρο̣[μοζδο ρωσο ]α̣β̣ι̣ιηλο αχϸο α̣σ̣ο̣ ι̣ μασκο̣ ν̣[αβιχτιγο
9 [ ]βρ̣α̣δο πορο φο̣ρ̣[ζανδανο ……] ναϸιιαμο ταδασο ζαμ̣[ανο
10 [ ].......[ ].......... ζαμ̣[ανο
11 … μ̣ανο
Translation
Folio:
1 (It was) the year 476, the month New-year, at the beginning(?) (of the month), the day [Ormuzd, when this sealed document, this loan]-
2 contract [was written] here in Amber, in the presence of the god Ram-set, and in the presence of Akhsh[(?) . . .]. [Now: there has now been received by me, …]
3 -tis son of Berd, (from) Bokhara, and by me, Akhsh s[on of] Y[amsh-bandag(?), and by me,] Fin[z-lad(?), . . .],
4 market traders of Amber, and our b[rothers], children (and) d[escendants, from you, . . .],
5 market trader of [Amber], and from your brothers (and) children, [two]
6 hundred [good, locally current Persian silver] dirhams [of king Kawad] (as) a loan for a limited period, [on this] condition, that I have guaranteed [that it will be repaid . . .]
7 within two months . . . And if it should so happen that [we do not repay the capital and interest]
8 at the beginning(?) [of the third] month, on [the day] Or[muzd, the responsibility] for the [debt described] herein [will be] upon(?) this Akhsh . . .
9 [And if we, and our] brothers, sons (and) des[cendants] should not be able [to pay . . .], then from the time(?) . . .
10 … time(?) . . .
11 ...
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