Publicaties
Gekozen filters:
Gekozen filters:
Conto di distribuzione di birra KU Leuven
Fragment of a letter KU Leuven
‘Persian‘ mercenaries with Egyptian traditions and Hellenizing intentions. On native soldiers in Ptolemaic Thebaid KU Leuven
The southern part of Egypt, known as the Thebaid, ran in Ptolemaic times from the Hermopolite or Lycopolite nome upstream to Elephantine at the southern border. This vast region with Thebes (Luxor and Karnak) and Edfu as its main centers was Hellenized at a later stage than the rest of the country. One of the Thebaid towns that produced numerous family archives on papyrus is Pathyris, located some 30 km south of Thebes. These archives belonged ...
Markets and Monopolies: The Role of the State in Industry and Trade in Ptolemaic Egypt KU Leuven
Ancient Egypt is known primarily as the breadbasket of the ancient Mediterranean. Egypt's economy was by no means limited to agriculture, however, and thousands of papyri (the ancient world's equivalent to modern paper documents) inform us about commodities like papyrus, vegetable oils, beer, textiles, salt and so on. In the Hellenistic or Ptolemaic period (305-30 BC), the production and distribution of many of these products was subject to ...
Private and commercial pigeon breeding taxed. Ptolemaic levies on pigeon houses and their revenues KU Leuven
Pigeon breeding, already popular in Pharaonic Egypt and in the Greek world, was continued into the Ptolemaic period. Pigeon squabs were considered a delicacy, and pigeon manure was used to fertilize types of land that could not be enriched by the Nile inundations. Pigeon houses of a modest size were constructed in the residential area's, while larger buildings were found on the outskirts of towns and in the agricultural area. Two types of taxes ...