Mediation to Solve Dispute and Business Instructions for Delivery of Oil: a 2nd/8th C.E Letter from Edfu

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Faculty of tourism and hotel management, University of Sadat City

Abstract

This paper presents an edition of the unpublished Arabic papyrus P.IFAO Edfou Ar. Inv. 10, currently kept at the Institut français d'archéologie orientale - IFAO – Cairo, Egypt. It was found in Edfu, the famous city of Upper Egypt, datable on palaeographical grounds to the 2nd/8th century. It is an early Arabic business letter, it illustrates a business network between Edfu, the town of Narmūda at Fayyūm and another third anonymous Egyptian place.