Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, M I 18

Source

e-codices

Library

Basel. Universitätsbibliothek

Shelfmark

• M I 18

Biblissima authority file

• https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q219463

Date

• 7th century
• 619 to 629 AD

Language

• Middle Persan

Title

• List with information about military recruitment

Description

• Information about the conscription of troops. It names several cities along the Nile (among them Elephantine, Herakleion, Oxyrhynchus) that had to supply soldiers for the Persian commander Šērag. This document, written in Middle Persian (Pahlavi) on parchment, dates from between 619 and 629 AD, the time of the Sassanid occupation of Egypt.

Rights

• e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland

License

• https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en

Digitisation

• https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/ubb/M-I-0018

Manifest URL

• https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/metadata/iiif/ubb-M-I-0018/manifest.json