Geniza Lab

Legal testimony involving India traders. Fragment: only the left side is preserved. Location: Possibly Alexandria: it appears to be spelled מדינת אכסנדריה, but in the very next line there is someone named אלאסכנדראני with the letters in the correct (Arabic) order. Dated: [..]32 AM, likely 1171/72 CE, but conceivably 1061/62 or 1271/72 (this can likely be resolved with the help of the names). The case involves the city of Abyār, a debt, and two raṭls of (dyed?) silk and someone named David b. Yaʿaqov. There are two rows of circles in between the main document and the qiyyum/validation. At the bottom of the qiyyum are the names (but not signatures) of: Ḥalfon b. Yaʿaqov, Aharon ha-Ḥazzan, Avraham b. Elʿazar, Ḥalfon b. [...], and [...] ha-Ḥazzan b. Aharon ha-Ḥazzan.