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Distribution list. Dating: Ca. 1030 CE. Important but much damaged list of the type of B 2b: distribution of sums of 5 dirhems and its multiples (many of 15 or 20 some even of 30), also several of 7 1/2 dirhems. Many names identical with the contemporary lists B 1, 2, 52 (e.g., the rare Maʿshūq, "Beloved," here, ll. 1 and 7 = B 1, l. 35), also some new persons. Here, as in B 2b, after the sums assigned, numbers are added, which seem to indicate here the number of persons in each household. A note: "For transport and the balance of the flour—21" shows that simultaneously with this distribution of money the poor received certain quantities of flour. Goitein, Med Soc II, App. B, #100 (p. 465). NB: Goitein cites this fragment as T-S J1.34.