TM 14312 and the sale of ousiac land in Egypt

[Accepted for publication in BASP on August 21 2020] Abstract: This paper offers a new interpretation of SB 10 10527 (= TM 14312), which is supposedly an offer to buy five arouras of the Louriane ousia near Tebtynis. This scenario, proposed by Parássoglou, includes too many inconsistencies, however. It makes more sense to interpret the land being sold as former property of a private landowner called Lurius who was indebted to the state. The remainder of the paper is dedicated to other alleged examples of sold-off imperial land and to the sense of πρότερον added to some descriptions of imperial estates, in order to demonstrate that such land was only rarely put up for sale by the administration.

Jaar van publicatie:2021

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