Mediation to solve dispute and business instructions for delivery of oil : a 2nd 8th C. E letter from Edfu

الملخص EN

This paper presents an edition of the unpublished Arabic papyrus P.

IFAO Edfou Ar.

Inv.

10, currently kept at the Institut français d'archéologie orientale - IFAO – Cairo, Egypt.

It was found in Edfu, the famous city of Upper Egypt, datable on palaeographical grounds to the 2^nd/8^th century.

It is an early Arabic business letter, it illustrates a business network between Edfu, the town of Narmūda at Fayyūm and another third anonymous Egyptian place.