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The Production and Use of Vegetable Oils in Ptolemaic Egypt
How vegetable oils, a dietary staple, were produced and used in Ptolemaic Egypt is considered in this volume. The Ptolemaic revenue laws and the Zenon archive provide a substantial amount…
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The Ptolemaic Basilikos Grammateus
A study of the most important office held by an Egyptian in the government of the Ptolemies is presented here. The work provides a prosopography of the holders of the…
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Tutankhamun’s Trumpet
“Wilkinson is a consummate historian.… He has mastered the facts with painstaking research and allowed them to speak for themselves. Rarely do facts speak this clearly.” —…
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Un Codex fiscal Hermopolite
Jean Gascou presents here an edition of a tax register from Hermopolis in the seventh century CE. The ledger lists payments in wheat from estates and individuals and adds to…
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Writing, Teachers and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt
Papyri problems and exercises on papyri and ostraca, work books, and text books provide some of the richest evidence for the processes of education in the Roman world. This study…
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