TY  - BOOK
AU  - Donker van Heel,K.
TI  - Djekhy & son: doing business in Ancient Egypt 
SN  - 9789774164774
U1  - 650.0932 21
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cairo, Egypt
PB  - American University in Cairo Press
KW  - Business enterprises
KW  - Egypt
KW  - History
KW  - Sources
KW  - Businessmen
KW  - Egyptian language
KW  - Papyri
KW  - Markt
KW  - (DE-588)4037621-7
KW  - gnd
KW  - Vertrag
KW  - (DE-588)4063270-2
KW  - Wirtschaft
KW  - (DE-588)4066399-1
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - (DE-588)4068430-1
KW  - Ägypten (Altertum)
N1  - "Dar el Kutub No. 24398/11."--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-175) and index
N2  - "Djekhy & 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 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."--Publisher description
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