Counting the people in Hellenistic Egypt

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Counting the people in Hellenistic Egypt

Willy Clarysse and Dorothy J. Thompson ; in collaboration with Ulrich Luft ... [et al.]

（Cambridge classical studies）

Cambridge University Press, 2006

  • v. 1
  • v. 2
  • v. 2 : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Vol. 1. Population registers (P.Count) -- v. 2. Historical studies

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Volume

v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9780521124836

Description

The historical studies of this second volume provide an examination of the economic and social history of Ptolemaic Egypt. The salt-tax registers of P. Count not only throw light on key aspects of the fiscal policy of the Greek pharaohs but also provide the best information for family and household structure for the Western world before the fifteenth century AD. The makeup of the population is thoroughly analysed here in both demographic and occupational terms. A constant theme running throughout is the impact of the Greeks on the indigenous population of Egypt. This is traced in cultural policies, in administrative geography, in the realm of stock-rearing and in the changing religious affiliations traceable through the names that parents gave their children. The extent to which Egypt is typical of the Hellenistic world more widely is the final topic addressed.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Ptolemies, taxes and papyri
  • 2. The census
  • 3. The salt-tax and other taxes
  • 4. Settlement in the Fayum
  • 5. The people counted
  • 6. Counting the animals
  • 7. Family matters
  • 8. Naming the people
  • 9. Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index.
Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9780521838382

Description

This volume publishes fifty-four Ptolemaic papyri from the Fayum and Middle Egypt, with English translations and extensive commentaries. The texts, dating from c. 250-150 BC and written in either Greek or Egyptian demotic, record lists of adults, ordered by village, occupation and social group, and by household, together with the taxes paid on their persons, their livestock and trades. Some are more than twenty columns long. All texts have been studied on the originals by an international team of scholars. Many are published here for the first time; the others have been extensively revised with numerous new joins between fragments. Lists of tax-payers and their payments provide a wealth of information on population and family structure, administrative practice, social and professional groups and naming practices. Providing the documentary basis for the historical studies of Volume II, P. Count is essential for any serious evaluation of that account.

Table of Contents

  • 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.
Volume

v. 2 ISBN 9780521838399

Description

The historical studies of this second volume provide an examination of the economic and social history of Ptolemaic Egypt. The salt-tax registers of P. Count not only throw light on key aspects of the fiscal policy of the Greek pharaohs but also provide the best information for family and household structure for the Western world before the fifteenth century AD. The makeup of the population is thoroughly analysed here in both demographic and occupational terms. A constant theme running throughout is the impact of the Greeks on the indigenous population of Egypt. This is traced in cultural policies, in administrative geography, in the realm of stock-rearing and in the changing religious affiliations traceable through the names that parents gave their children. The extent to which Egypt is typical of the Hellenistic world more widely is the final topic addressed.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Ptolemies, taxes and papyri
  • 2. The census
  • 3. The salt-tax and other taxes
  • 4. Settlement in the Fayum
  • 5. The people counted
  • 6. Counting the animals
  • 7. Family matters
  • 8. Naming the people
  • 9. Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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