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Figure 11.4 Shar` family holdings in 1933
as maintenance each month: one mudd of wheat, one sa‘ of cracked wheat,
one-half ratl of dried yogurt (jamid), one-half ratl of olive oil, one-half ratl of
salt, one ratl of onions, three awan of soap, one thumniya of lentils, and one
hundred qurush as the cost of things for her and her son Sulaiman, and clothing
for her (a shurush, a malfa‘, a tannura and a tubba) and her son. Tamam wins
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Five days later Ghazala returned to court with another claim paralleling
Tamam’s. She demands maintenance for another son, Subhi, aged three, whom
she had failed to mention earlier, and the following monthly maintenance for
herself and the two boys, of which she would take half: 2½ mudd of wheat, 1½
mudd of cracked wheat, one ratl of olive oil, 2 ratl of paraffin, one-half ratl of
clarified butter, one ratl of dried yogurt, one ratl of salt, one ratl of onions, two
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