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Book SynopsisDjekhy & 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 570 and 534
Table of ContentsForeword
Acknowledgments
Chronology
1. People
The Family
2. Papyri
The Box of Muhammad Muhassib
3. Trust
Just a Businessman from Thebes
Trustee
A Letter from the North
Marital Property Arrangement
4. Water
A Hostile Takeover
5. Flax
Working the Land
Into the Flax Business
A Major Deal
A Late Payment?
6. Grain
The Second Generation
More than Ten Hectares of Land?
7. Trust
The Theban Choachytes’ Association
A Complicated Deal
8. People
Iturech Buys a Son
9. Earth
A Cattle Keeper of Montu
Not a Real Land Lease
10. Water
New Mummies, New Opportunities
11. Cattle
Just a Priest from Thebes
12. Ink
Hieratic and Demotic: Why Bother?
