Dealing With the Dead in Ancient Egypt: The Funerary Business of Petebaste by Koenraad Donker van Heel;

Author:Koenraad Donker van Heel; [Heel;, Koenraad Donker van]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781617979965
Google: KvKazQEACAAJ
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: 2021-11-15T23:39:14.980520+00:00

If a man files suit against a(nother) man, saying: “He took away the path to my house, and he attached it to his (own) house,” they (the judges) will look at his house in question.

If [. . . . . .] in them (?) (the) foundation of the path in question, and it belongs to the man who builds the house, he is allowed to build on the foundation.

If it happens that [the] foundation is below the path in question, he is not allowed to build it.

Perhaps the demotic scribe made a mistake here? The gist of this passage appears to hinge on the location of the foundation of the house of the man (re)building it. Would this procedure include digging up the foundation to see whether it extended below the path the whole conflict had started with? The fact that more than once a demotic sales contract of a house or plot of land mentions the right of access––as does our doc 3––suggests that some people may have had a nasty surprise, finding out too late that they had acquired an immovable building, but not the right of way.

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