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Unnamed Enslaved Person 18

بيانات التعريف

Gender
Male
Social role
  • Enslaved person

Description / Bio

Enslaved man (ghulām) mentioned in a letter from Yaʿaqov b. Yosef [..]ān al-Barqī to Shemarya b. Shemuel (line 13r). The letter sender mentions his efforts to sell the unnamed ghulām but has not found any buyers. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 138)

Matthew Dudley, "Unnamed Enslaved Person 18," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/unnamed-enslaved-person-18/, accessed February 9, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/unnamed-enslaved-person-18/