Tax Receipts, Taxpayers, and Taxes in Early Ptolemaic Thebes

Summary

Sets out the early Ptolemaic tax system, describes the changes in the capitation taxes during the reign of Ptolemy II, discusses the other state and temple revenues, and then reconstructs the prosopography and provenance of thirty-nine tax payers whose names occur frequently in these initial studies.

Product details

• Authors: B. P. Muhs, Brian Muhs
• Publisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2005
• EAN: 9781885923301
• ISBN: 978-1-885923-30-1
• No. of pages: 262
• Weight: 1365 g
• Series: Oriental Institute Publications
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity