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Unnamed Enslaved Person 19 (in Alexandria)

מטא-דאטא

Gender
Female
Social role
  • Enslaved person

Description / Bio

Enslaved woman mentioned in a letter from Yeshu'a b. Ismāʿīl al-Mahmuri, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. The letter discusses the process of selling the unnamed jāriya in Alexandria (ll. 13r, 9-11v). (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 139)

Matthew Dudley, "Unnamed Enslaved Person 19 (in Alexandria)," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/unnamed-enslaved-person-19/, accessed February 9, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/unnamed-enslaved-person-19/