Iras
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- "The farm is my birthright. I will work it as long as I can."
- ―Iras to Bayek, 48 BCE[src]
Iras was a Greek Egyptian woman who owned a date farm on the road from Yamu to Alexandria from 48 BCE onward. She inherited the farm from her father Uteh when he, along with the rest of her family, were murdered by soldiers sent by the wealthy Alexandrian Sophronios in the hopes of seizing their land by force. Thanks to the help of the Medjay Bayek, Iras was saved from Sophronios and allowed to cultivate her farm in peace.
Biography
For centuries, Iras's family of Greek descent had owned a plot of land on the road from Yamu and Alexandria by Lake Mareotis. They were date farmers although they had left this particular farm untended for all their years of ownership until the middle of the 1st century BCE. Under Uteh, Iras's father, the family finally began to cultivate this farm; their success, however, soon drew the envy of a wealthy Alexandrian by the name of Sophronios.[1]
Iras was only a young girl in 48 BCE when her family were slaughtered at their farm by soldiers sent by Sophronios in retaliation for Uteh refusing to concede the property through a false deed of sale. The entire farm was razed, but Iras, alone, managed to survive. Determined to give her family over to the priests in Yamu for a proper burial, she laboriously brought each of the three bodies of her slain kin one-by-one down to the Temple of Sekhmet in Yamu. There, the bodies were laid down in salt pools while they awaited mummification by the Head Embalmer.[1]
In the meantime, Iras returned to her farm, determined to maintain what was now her birthright. However, Sophronios soldiers soon returned to finish off Iras, forcing her to hide in a well. They never found her; instead, they were slain to the last man by the Medjay Bayek who arrived to help her after hearing of her ordeal. In response to Bayek's offer to guarantee her future safety, Iras gave him a lead: she heard they were based in a country villa northwest of the farm.[1]