Sabbatical Katelijn Vandorpe: Burdened by taxes? Fiscal centralization and government control in Hellenistic Egypt. KU Leuven
The extraordinary documentation of Hellenistic Egypt (thousands of papyri and potsherds including tax receipts and lists) informs us in detail about the complex fiscal system of the Nile country, which is known for its many taxes and its bureaucracy. However, the synthesis studies and many detailed studies on the tax system are very outdated. Moreover, many researchers assume that because of the high number of taxes, the tax burden was high, ...