Djekhy & Son : Doing Business in Ancient Egypt.

Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- 1. People -- The Family -- Papyrus Mattha -- 2. Papyri -- The Box of Muhammad Muhassib -- The Archive of Djekhy &amp -- Son -- P. Louvre E 7834 and 7838 -- Between 675 and 572 BCE -- Between 570 and 534 BCE -- The Saite Restoration -- 3. Trust: Djekhy 570-549 BCE -- Just a Businessman from Thebes -- Trustee -- Demotic Temple Oaths -- A Letter from the North -- Working with Papyri -- Marital Property Arrangement -- Papyrus Insinger: A Saite Wisdom Text? -- The Teachings of Ankhsheshonqy -- 4. Water: Djekhy 559 BCE -- A Hostile Takeover -- A Five-thousand-year Tradition -- 5. Flax: Djekhy 556-552 BCE -- Working the Land -- The Palette of Khonsu -- Papyrus Rylands 9 -- Into the Flax Business -- Earlier Work -- Lease, Harvest, and Tax -- A Major Deal -- A Late Payment? -- The Hand of God -- 6. Grain: Iturech 550-536 BCE -- The Second Generation -- Your Grace or Dung? -- More than Ten Hectares of Land? -- The Scribe of the Mat -- 7. Trust: Iturech 542-535 BCE -- The Theban Choachytes' Association -- The Patron Saint -- Egyptian New Year -- A Complicated Deal -- 8. People: Iturech 539 BCE -- Iturech Buys a Son -- 9. Earth: Iturech 536-534 BCE -- A Cattle Keeper of Montu -- The Lamp Land of Khonsu -- Not a Real Land Lease -- The Besmut Family -- 10. Water: Iturech 536 BCE -- New Mummies, New Opportunities -- 11. Cattle: Djekhy 533 BCE -- Just a Priest from Thebes -- 12. Ink -- Hieratic and Demotic: Why Bother? -- Notes -- Index.

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