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Placard of a Spanish pilgrim to Jerusalem "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither [Psalms 137:5]. [I am] Avraham b. Yehuda—m[ay he rest in] E[den], the Spaniard, from the town of Jayyān [today Jaén] called al-Ṣarrāf [the Banker]. May God, for the sake of his name, let me arrive in Jerusalem, the Holy City—may it be rebuilt and established during the lifetime of all Israel—and let me become one of its inhabitants. May this be His will. Amen, in eternity, Selah. Written. . . . [Here, probably the date of the pilgrim's departure from his hometown was given.]" (Information and translation from Goitein, Med Soc V, p. 401.)