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Unnamed Enslaved Person 24

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Gender
Female
Social role
  • Enslaved person

Description / Bio

Enslaved woman (jāriya) mentioned in a ca. 1065 CE letter from Natan b. Nahray, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Natan seeks instructions from his father as to whether he should send the unnamed jāriya from Alexandria to Fustat. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 144)

Matthew Dudley, "Unnamed Enslaved Person 24," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/unnamed-enslaved-person-24/, accessed February 9, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/unnamed-enslaved-person-24/