By revealing the dynamics between central and local power in Egypt, Joe Manning demonstrates that Ptolemaic economic power ultimately shaped Roman Egyptian social and economic institutions. His book offers a framework for understanding the structure of the Ptolemaic state and economy, as well as the relationship between the new Ptolemaic economic institutions and the ancient Egyptian legal traditions of property rights. Historians of Egypt and the Hellenistic world will welcome the volume.
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"...one of the most important books on Ptolemaic studies in recent years and full of intriguing details. It is difficult to do it justice in such a short review." Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"this work provides a vigorous analysis of the existing evidence, and makes a significant contribution to studies on Ptolemaic Egypt." American Historical Review
"this work provides a vigorous analysis of the existing evidence, and makes a significant contribution to studies on Ptolemaic Egypt." American Historical Review
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This book offers a coherent framework for understanding the structure of the Ptolemaic state and economy, as well as the relationship between the new Ptolemaic economic institutions and the ancient Egyptian legal traditions of property rights. For the first time the evidence of Greek papyri and Egyptian documentation is combined. By revealing the dynamics between central and local power in Egypt, Professor Manning shows that Ptolemaic economic power ultimately shaped Roman Egyptian social and economic institutions. All historians of Egypt and the Hellenistic world will welcome this important book.
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This book is about land tenure and the structure of the Ptolemaic state (332 BCE-30 BCE). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
demotic conveyances, demotic evidence, kleruchic land, ground cubits, demotic sales, demotic leases, donation text, demotic contracts, ten arouras, land tenure regime, demotic ostraca, royal farmers, demotic material, village scribe, royal economy, demotic term, administrative papyri, temple estate, demotic papyri, harvest tax, temple domain, demotic texts, scribal families, royal fields, royal land Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Upper Egypt, Ptolemaic Egypt, New Kingdom, Donker van Heel, Middle Kingdom, Red Sea, Select Papyri, Old Kingdom, Middle Egypt, Twelfth Dynasty, Horus of Edfu, Ptolemaic Fayyum, Tokugawa Japan, Soknopaiou Nesos, Bahr Yusef, Dionysios Petoserapis, Mohammed Ali, Satrap Stela, Beni Hasan, Egyptian Museum, Lake Moeris, Max Weber, New Institutional Economics, Rosetta Stone New!
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This book is about land tenure and the structure of the Ptolemaic state (332 BCE-30 BCE). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
demotic conveyances, demotic evidence, kleruchic land, ground cubits, demotic sales, demotic leases, donation text, demotic contracts, ten arouras, land tenure regime, demotic ostraca, royal farmers, demotic material, village scribe, royal economy, demotic term, administrative papyri, temple estate, demotic papyri, harvest tax, temple domain, demotic texts, scribal families, royal fields, royal land Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Upper Egypt, Ptolemaic Egypt, New Kingdom, Donker van Heel, Middle Kingdom, Red Sea, Select Papyri, Old Kingdom, Middle Egypt, Twelfth Dynasty, Horus of Edfu, Ptolemaic Fayyum, Tokugawa Japan, Soknopaiou Nesos, Bahr Yusef, Dionysios Petoserapis, Mohammed Ali, Satrap Stela, Beni Hasan, Egyptian Museum, Lake Moeris, Max Weber, New Institutional Economics, Rosetta Stone New!
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- Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava by P. W. Pestman on 7 pages
- The Museum: Behind the Scenes at the British Museum by Rupert Smith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. 12: The Crisis of Empire, AD 193-337 by Alan Bowman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. 10: The Augustan Empire, 43 BC-AD 69 (Volume 10) by Alan Bowman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Demotic Texts from the Collection (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications) (v. 1) by Paul John Frandsen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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