The Sale of One’s Self and his Sons, An Image of Social Decline during the Late Period (664-332 BCE)

Document Type : Academic scientific reviews of any other material related to the main domains of this Journal.

Abstract

Therefore, the study will deal with this phenomenon through special documents of a farmer called "Peftaukhons", supporting the study with some excerpts from other documents to clarify that this phenomenon was not limited to an individual case only in society, but some other documents were found for people who put themselves in the same social status. The documents of Peftaukhons covered the largest part of the study because they were documented in five documents belonging to him; while the other three documents belong to different people, and the items of their documents are similar, with a slight difference, to the Peftaukhons' documents. Consequently, these documents will be analyzed to find out the main reasons that prompted those people to put themselves in this situation and take their children with them, and to know their social and economic conditions before the sale and how to deal with them. Can they, after selling themselves through slavery, be freed, or will they remain in that situation forever?

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