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Unnamed Enslaved Person 35

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Gender
Female
Social role
  • Enslaved person

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Enslaved woman mentioned in a legal document in which Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Ṭoviyya testifies that she has received from her husband Bū Saʿd Moshe b. Yefet nearly all that was due to her from her ketubba (dated Av 1468 Seleucid = 1157 CE). However, the document states that Sitt al-Fakhr did not receive the enslaved woman who was "lost from (her mistress's) house": thus highlighting the possibility that she had escaped slavery. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 155)

Matthew Dudley, "Unnamed Enslaved Person 35," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/unnamed-enslaved-person-35/, accessed February 9, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/unnamed-enslaved-person-35/