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- Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150–700 CE
- Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150–700 CE
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- A Note on Abbreviations and Sources Used
- Introduction Late Antique Studies and the New Polyphony for Slave Studies
- Part I Moral and Symbolic Values of Slavery
- Part II Slavery, Cultural Discourses, and Identity
- Part III Slavery, Social History, and the Papyrological and Epigraphical Sources
- 9 Slaves in Sixth-Century Palestine in the Light of Papyrological Evidence
- 10 Enslaved Children in Roman Egypt: Experiences from the Papyri
- 11 Late Antique Slavery in Epigraphic Evidence
- Part IV Social and Religious Histories of Slavery on the Borders of the Empire and Beyond
- Bibliography
- Index
9 - Slaves in Sixth-Century Palestine in the Light of Papyrological Evidence
from Part III - Slavery, Social History, and the Papyrological and Epigraphical Sources
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2022
- Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150–700 CE
- Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150–700 CE
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- A Note on Abbreviations and Sources Used
- Introduction Late Antique Studies and the New Polyphony for Slave Studies
- Part I Moral and Symbolic Values of Slavery
- Part II Slavery, Cultural Discourses, and Identity
- Part III Slavery, Social History, and the Papyrological and Epigraphical Sources
- 9 Slaves in Sixth-Century Palestine in the Light of Papyrological Evidence
- 10 Enslaved Children in Roman Egypt: Experiences from the Papyri
- 11 Late Antique Slavery in Epigraphic Evidence
- Part IV Social and Religious Histories of Slavery on the Borders of the Empire and Beyond
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Greek papyrological evidence from the Palestine area is scarce; thus, the main source material for the sixth century ce consists of only two papyrus dossiers: one from Petra and the other from Nessana. The recent publication of the Petra papyri provides some long-awaited data on the onomastics of slaves and their existence in households of the elite and in the Christian community of Petra. The more abundant papyrological corpus from Egypt does not give a clear image of slaves this late in time. This article provides the first detailed and contextualized study on the evidence for slaveholding in the Greek documentary papyrological material of the Palestine area in the sixth century. In the first section, I give a brief overview of both the Nessana and Petra dossiers. In the second part, I review the attestations in the papyrus texts from these dossiers as well as the terms used for possible slaves in each case.
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- Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 – 700 CE , pp. 191 - 209Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022