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Unnamed Enslaved Person 28

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Gender
Male
Social role
  • Enslaved person

Description / Bio

Enslaved man (waṣīf) mentioned in a medieval-era family letter to a place north of Qūṣ, in upper Egypt (l. 2v). (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 148)

Matthew Dudley, "Unnamed Enslaved Person 28," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/unnamed-enslaved-person-28/, accessed February 8, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/unnamed-enslaved-person-28/