Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt: Volume 2, Historical StudiesCambridge University Press, 12/06/2006 - 418 من الصفحات The historical studies of this second volume provide a new look at 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. |
المحتوى
The salttax and other taxes | 36 |
Settlement in the Fayum | 90 |
The people counted | 123 |
Counting the animals | 206 |
Family matters | 226 |
Naming the people | 318 |
Conclusion | 342 |
Appendix | 350 |
Bibliography | 357 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
administration adults Apollonios Arabs army Arsinoe Arsinoite nome Bagnall and Frier cavalry cleruchs census cent Chapter civilian Clarysse cleruchs conjugal families context database daughter declarations demotic Diodorus Siculus district drachmas earlier Egyptian Egyptian names ephodoi epigonoi ethnic ethnos exemption father Fayum Fayum villages female figures fiscal further Greek Greek and Egyptian Greek names Hellenes Hellenistic Herakleides meris Horos household-head involved Krokodilon polis Lagis levy listed military mother non-kin number of males nurse obol-tax obols occupations overall Oxyrhynchite P.Cairo Zen P.Count P.Mon.inv P.Petrie P.Tebt papyri perhaps period Persians Phanesis phylakitai pigs Polemon police population priests probably Ptol Ptolemaic Egypt recorded registers role Roman Egypt royal salt salt-tax second century BC settlers sex ratio sheep slaves special categories status survive Table tax-area tax-collectors tax-district tax-registers teachers texts Themistos third century BC Thompson toparchy Trikomia village scribe W.Chrest wife women Zenon