Abstract
The suggestion put forward by E. Cruz-Uribe, JEA 74 (1988), 220-3, that the stable-master Nebnufer was alive throughout the proceedings recorded in the Adoption Papyrus, is to be rejected because the resulting procedure is, in several important respects, alien to what is known of Egyptian legal practice in the disposal of property. A new reading of the name of one of the witnesses is also proposed.
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