Seven Arabic slave sale contracts on papyrus
Abstract
Annotated editions and translations of seven Arabic slave sale contracts on papyrus dating from the late ninth and early tenth centuries CE. Six of these documents belong to the Arabic Papyrus, Parchment and Paper Collection of the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library; one document is kept in the Egyptian National Library (its editio princeps has been published as P. Cair. Arab. II 124).
SlaverySlave tradeSale contractsEgyptArabic papyri

