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Unnamed Enslaved Person 34

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Gender
Female
Social roles
  • Enslaved person
  • Manumitted person

Description / Bio

Enslaved woman possibly mentioned in a medieval-era letter. Many of the details in the text are vague so it is unclear whether she— the "jāriya" in line 12r—was still enslaved or had been manumitted. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 154)

Matthew Dudley, "Unnamed Enslaved Person 34," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/unnamed-enslaved-person-34/, accessed March 14, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/unnamed-enslaved-person-34/