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Settling a Dispute: Toward a Legal Anthropology of Late Antique Egypt (New Texts From Ancient Cultures) by Gagos, Traianos, Van Minnen, Peter is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Family squabbles and fights over real estate were no less complex in sixth-century Egypt than they are in the modern world. In this unusual volume Peter van Minnen and Traianos Gagos investigate just such a struggle, as described in a two-part papyrus some five feet long. Composed by the ancient equivalent of a notary public, the papyrus describes the outcome (after mediation) of a family dispute about valuable real estate. Traianos Gagos and Peter van Minnen offer an English translation and a c

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Author
Gagos, Traianos, Van Minnen, Peter
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press
Published
1994
Language
EN
ISBN
9780472065905
Category
history
Subjects
Law, History
Updated
2026-03-25

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