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Bandār

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Gender
Male
Social roles
  • Enslaved person
  • Manumitted person

Description / Bio

Emancipated man whose estate is mentioned in a tenth century legal document, possibly from Sicily given the mention of tari coinage (טריים). (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 2, no. 2)

Matthew Dudley, "Bandār," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/bandar/, accessed June 7, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/bandar/