Oxyrynchus in Egypt is the best documented city of the Roman empire. This book uses the thousands of papyrus documents found there to examine how its urban landowning class derived its wealth from the outlying rural lands, and the relationships they held with their tenants.
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"Essential reading for all scholars interested in the social and economic history of Roman Egypt."--Choice
"...Jane Rowlandson has written a book that is both thorough and indispensable for those who wish to understand the Egyptian economy in the Roman period. Rowlandson has an astute and consistent understanding of how the patterns of land tenancy functioned in rural Egypt on both the economic and social levels."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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Jane Rowlandson is at King's College, London.
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Almost all the texts used in this study come from finds at the site of Oxyrhynchus itself; but their subject matter concerns the agricultural area of the nome, stretching from over 40 km to the north of the metropolis to about 25 km to the south. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
metropolitan landowners, demosioi georgoi, ousiac land, metropolitan landlords, uninundated land, toparchy villages, hundred arouras, matrona stolata, sharecropping leases, ten arouras, vineyard leases, wheat rents, surviving leases, centri abitati, property fragmentation, fodder cultivation, intestate inheritance, hereditary lease, female landowners, village tenants, landholding sizes, compulsory imposition, compulsory assignment, ooo drachmas, irrigation machinery Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Roman Egypt, Bahr Yusuf, Claudia Isidora, Economic Rationalism, Calpurnia Heraklia, Antipera Pela, Late Antiquity, Calpurnius Firmus, Cairo Isid, Die Landwirtschaft, Gabal Abu Sir, Isis of Taposiris, Julius Theon, Small Oasis, Ancient Egypt, Aurelius Horion, Constitutio Antoniniana, Early Hydraulic Civilization, Ision Panga, Soknopaiou Nesos, Tiberius Julius Alexander, Vibius Horigenes, Calpurnius Horion, Duke Univ New!
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Almost all the texts used in this study come from finds at the site of Oxyrhynchus itself; but their subject matter concerns the agricultural area of the nome, stretching from over 40 km to the north of the metropolis to about 25 km to the south. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
metropolitan landowners, demosioi georgoi, ousiac land, metropolitan landlords, uninundated land, toparchy villages, hundred arouras, matrona stolata, sharecropping leases, ten arouras, vineyard leases, wheat rents, surviving leases, centri abitati, property fragmentation, fodder cultivation, intestate inheritance, hereditary lease, female landowners, village tenants, landholding sizes, compulsory imposition, compulsory assignment, ooo drachmas, irrigation machinery Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Roman Egypt, Bahr Yusuf, Claudia Isidora, Economic Rationalism, Calpurnia Heraklia, Antipera Pela, Late Antiquity, Calpurnius Firmus, Cairo Isid, Die Landwirtschaft, Gabal Abu Sir, Isis of Taposiris, Julius Theon, Small Oasis, Ancient Egypt, Aurelius Horion, Constitutio Antoniniana, Early Hydraulic Civilization, Ision Panga, Soknopaiou Nesos, Tiberius Julius Alexander, Vibius Horigenes, Calpurnius Horion, Duke Univ New!
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- Egypt in Late Antiquity by Roger S. Bagnall on 10 pages
- The Ancient Economy (Sather Classical Lectures) by M. I. Finley on page 178, page 183, and Back Matter
- Structure and Scale in the Roman Economy by Richard Duncan-Jones on page 149, page 245, and Back Matter
- The Demography of Roman Egypt (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time) by Roger S. Bagnall on page 149, page 172, and Back Matter
- Economic Rights of Women in Ancient Greece by David M. Schaps on page 141, and Back Matter
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- Alexandria, Real and Imagined (Publications for the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College, London) by Anthony Hirst on page 108
- Women's Influence on Classical Civilization by Eireann Marshall in Front Matter
- Women's Influence on Classical Civilization by Eireann Marshall in Front Matter
- Approaching Late Antiquity: The Transformation from Early to Late Empire by Simon Swain in Back Matter
- Trade, Traders and the Ancient City by Helen Parkins on page 15
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