L'infanzia venduta. Brevi riflessioni sulla continuità di una pratica giuridico-religiosa egiziana dall'età faraonica alle comunità religiose tardoantiche

This article aims at proposing a reflection concerning some socio-religious phenomena of pharaonic and Ptolemaic-Roman Egypt that endure to the Late Antiquity, even if re-shaped and re-modelled to face new necessities. In particular, among the several case studies that might be taken into consideration, it will deal with the practice of the sale and alienation of children that is attested by several textual categories, from the late New Kingdom to the 8th century.