Hedvig Győry: Mélanges offerts a Edith Varga „Le lotus qui sort de terre” (Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts Supplément 1. Budapest, 2001)
KATALIN ANNA KÓTHAY: Houses and households at Kahun: Bureaucratic and Domestic Aspects of Social Organization During the Middle Kingdom
was already grown-up but without wife and children, and not having been inaugurated into office yet. Hence he must be a young man under 20. 74 Thus, his parents' marriage could have taken place 15-20 years earlier, i.e. at around the same time than Wah's marriage. It follows from this that Shepset and Teti, the two wives, were probably of the same generation. Since the other legal document of the two brothers Ankhren and Wah (1.2) is dated to year 26 of Amenemhat III, i.e. about 20 years earlier then the marriage of Wah, it may be assumed that he was at least a middle aged man at the time of his marriage. His relatively late marriage can also be supported by the fact that a later addition to the contract made to his wife concerns the guardianship of the couple's son, 75 as if the addition had been made before Wah's predictable death. Hence chronological correlation between the two documents does not contradict the linkage of the two families. The remaining single letter - 1.7 16 shows no similarity at all with the other texts of the Lot. It is related to Lot II, however. Gallorini does not discuss the relevant documents, 77 but Griffith refers to the close connection between the contents of the two groups and sets the date of the finding of text II. 1 as April 1889. 78 We know from Gallorini's work that Petrie was mainly excavating in the western sector (Ranks A, B, and C) during this time. 79 Lots I. and III. 1-6, both found in the first season, presumably during the same month April 1889, are attributed by her to the southern part of the western sector (Ranks A and B). 80 Since the circumstances of the discovery of Lot II are very similar to those of Lots I and III. 1-6, the same part of the western sector may be a candidate for the find spot of Lot II. It must be admitted, however, that during the same period Petrie was also conducting excavations in the eastern sector, hence the foregoing hypothesis can be erroneous. The papyri (Lots I, III. 1-6, and perhaps II) the find spots of which can be located in the western part of the town concern private matters: they mostly contain copies of legal texts kept by the parties involved, as well as letters equally of personal character. The model letters (III.2) can be regarded as 74 A young man was to be expected to take a wife at about the age of 20, see Feucht, op. cit. (note 2), p. 23. 75 Griffith, op. cit. (note 16), I, p. 32, and pl. XII, 14. 76 Griffith, op. cit. pl. XXIX, 1-30. 7 Gallorini, op. cit. (note 68), pp. 42-59. " s Griffith, op. cit. (note 16), p. 36. '' Gallorini, op. cit. (note 68), table on p. 55. s " Gallorini, op. cit., pp, 44-46.
