Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt 2 Volume Paperback Set

by Willy Clarysse, Dorothy J. Thompson, Dorothy Thompson

Book Overview

This book consists of two closely related parts. Volume I published fifty-four Greek and Egyptian demotic papyri which derive from census and tax activities in Egypt of the third and second centuries BC. Volume II is an historical study, using these texts to analyse fundamental aspects of Ptolemaic Egypt. The salt-tax registers of P. Count make possible an assessment of the fiscal policy of the new Macedonian pharaohs and an analysis of the population...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521152348
• ISBN13: 9780521152341
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 1137 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"