Djekhy and Son : Doing Business in Ancient Egypt
ISBN: 9789774164774 | 9774164776
Format: HardcoverPublisher: The American University in Cairo Press
Pub. Date: 5/20/2012
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Djekhy and Son, two businessmen living 2500 years ago in the densely populated neighborhoods built around the great temple of Amun at Karnak, worked as funerary service providers in the necropolis on the western bank of the Nile. They were also successful agricultural entrepreneurs,cultivating flax and grain. In 1885, the German Egyptologist August Eisenlohr acquired a unique collection of papyri that turned out to be Djekhy's archive of mainly legal documents. Using this rich trove of evidence, augmented by many other sources, the author has painted a vivid picture of life in ancient Egypt between 570and 534 BCE, during the little-known Saite period. Approaching the subject from both business and personal aspects, he gives us a fresh look at some facets of ancient Egypt that have mostly been hidden from view-such as putting up one's children as security for a loan.
| List of Illustrations | p. vii |
| List of Tables | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Chronology | p. xvii |
| People | p. 1 |
| The Family | p. 1 |
| Papyrus Mattha | p. 9 |
| Papyri | p. 11 |
| The Box of Muhammad Muhassib | p. 11 |
| The Archive of Djekhy & Son | p. 16 |
| P. Louvre E 7834 and 78... MORE | p. 17 |
| Between 675 and 572 BCE | p. 21 |
| Between 570 and 534 BCE | p. 24 |
| The Saite Restoration | p. 25 |
| Trust: Djekhy 570-549 BCE | p. 35 |
| Just a Businessman from Thebes | p. 35 |
| Trustee | p. 39 |
| Demotic Temple Oaths | p. 41 |
| A Letter from the North | p. 42 |
| Working with Papyri | p. 45 |
| Marital Property Arrangement | p. 46 |
| Papyrus Insinger: A Saite Wisdom Text? | p. 50 |
| The Teachings of Ankhsheshonqy | p. 52 |
| Water: Djekhy 559 BCE | p. 57 |
| A Hostile Takeover | p. 57 |
| A Five-thousand-year Tradition | p. 58 |
| Flax: Djekhy 556-552 BCE | p. 73 |
| Working the Land | p. 73 |
| The Palette of Khonsu | p. 77 |
| Papyrus Rylands 9 | p. 79 |
| Into the Flax Business | p. 87 |
| Earlier Work | p. 90 |
| Lease, Harvest, and Tax | p. 93 |
| A Major Deal | p. 94 |
| A Late Payment? | p. 97 |
| The Hand of God | p. 99 |
| Grain: Iturech 550-536 BCE | p. 101 |
| The Second Generation | p. 101 |
| Your Grace or Dung? | p. 104 |
| More than Ten Hectares of Land? | p. 106 |
| The Scribe of the Mat | p. 112 |
| Trust: Iturech 542-535 BCE | p. 115 |
| The Theban Choachytes' Association | p. 115 |
| The Patron Saint | p. 121 |
| Egyptian New Year | p. 127 |
| A Complicated Deal | p. 128 |
| People: Iturech 539 BCE | p. 133 |
| Iturech Buys a Son | p. 133 |
| Earth: Iturech 536-534 BCE | p. 139 |
| A Cattle Keeper of Montu | p. 139 |
| The Lamp Land of Khonsu | p. 140 |
| Not a Real Land Lease | p. 141 |
| The Besmut Family | p. 142 |
| Water: Iturech 536 BCE | p. 145 |
| New Mummies, New Opportunities | p. 145 |
| Cattle: Djekhy 533 BCE | p. 149 |
| Just a Priest from Thebes | p. 149 |
| Ink | p. 151 |
| Hieratic and Demotic: Why Bother? | p. 151 |
| Notes | p. 173 |
| Index | p. 177 |
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