Abstract
Since the publication of the Adoption Papyrus (P. Ashmolean Museum 1945.96), commentators have mistakenly understood that Nebnefer, the husband of Rennefer, was deceased when the text was written. The author argues that Nebnefer was alive for all the proceedings. This eliminates the untenable earlier assumption that a deceased individual was an active party to a contract. A new translation of the text with some commentary is given.
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