Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt - Counting the People in Hellenistic Egyp

Informationen zum Autor Willy Clarysse is a Fellow of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium and teaches in the Departments of Classics and the Ancient Near East at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is the author of Prosopographia Ptolemaica IX! Addenda et corrigenda au volume III (1981)! The Petrie Papyri (second edition)! I. The Wills (1991) and of the Leuven Database of Ancient Books (htpp://ldab.arts.kuleuven.ac.be). Dorothy J. Thompson! a Fellow of the British Academy! teaches ancient history in the University of Cambridge where she is Isaac Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics and a Fellow of Girton College. She is the author of Memphis under the Ptolemies (1988). Klappentext Important study of the economic and social history of Ptolemaic Egypt! based on the salt-tax registers of P. Count. Zusammenfassung This book consists of two closely related parts. Volume I publishes fifty-four Ptolemaic papyri from the Fayum and Middle Egypt! with English translations and extensive commentaries. Volume II uses these texts! created for purposes of taxation! to provide historical studies analysing fundamental aspects of Ptolemaic Egypt. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates; List of figures; Preface; List of abbreviations; List of conventions; Greek records including: salt-tax records, household records, tax-district records, tax-collectors records, list of occupations, list of ethnics and occupations, tax-exemptions records, taxpayers records, tax-registers; Bibliography; Indices.

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• Authors: Willy Clarysse, Willy (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Clarysse, Willy Thompson Clarysse, Clarysse Willy, Dorothy J. Thompson, Thompson Dorothy J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.12.2009
• EAN: 9780521124874
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12487-4
• No. of pages: 724
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies; Cambridge Classical Studies; Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt 2 Volume Paperback Set
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Population & demography, Population and Demography, Ancient Egypt