Land and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt: The Structure of Land TenureCambridge University Press, 29 mag 2003 - 335 pagine This history of land tenure under the Ptolemies explores the relationship between the new Ptolemaic state and the ancient traditions of landholding and tenure. Departing from the traditional emphasis on the Fayyum, it offers a coherent framework for understanding the structure of the Ptolemaic state, and thus of the economy as a whole. Drawing for the first time on both Greek and demotic papyri, as well as hieroglyphic inscriptions and theories taken from the social sciences, Professor Manning argues that the traditional central state â€~despotic' model of the Egyptian economy is insufficient. The result is a subtler picture of the complex relationship between the demands of the new state and the ancient, locally-organized social structure of Egypt. By revealing the dynamics between central and local power in Egypt, the book shows that Ptolemaic economic power ultimately shaped Roman Egyptian social and economic institutions. |
Sommario
Issues and methodologies | 3 |
The Ptolemaic state and its antecedents 27 147 | 51 |
The Ptolemaic state and its antecedents | 59 |
The land tenure regime in Upper Egypt | 65 |
The land tenure regime in the Fayyum depression | 99 |
The land tenure regime in the Fayyum | 125 |
The Ptolemaic state the land tenure regime | 129 |
The private transmission of land | 182 |
Conclusions | 226 |
Translation of the Edfu donation text | 245 |
Appendix 2 | 262 |
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administrative agricultural Alexandria Amun ancient arouras arouras of land Asyut auction Bagnall bureaucracy central Chapter five Chapter three Clarysse Crawford crop cultivation decree demotic contracts demotic conveyances demotic Egyptian discussed documentary documents donation text economic power Edfu Egyptian Elephantine elite established evidence farmers Fayyum fields Greek harvest tax Hausw Hauswaldt Horus important institutions irrigation king kleruchs land survey land tenure land tenure regime leases Menches military Nile valley nome officials organization papyri Pathyris Persian Pestman pharaoh plots of land political Préaux priests production Ptolemaic economic Ptolemaic Egypt Ptolemaic period Ptolemy II Philadelphus Ptolemy III Euergetes records region revenue Rostovtzeff 1941 royal land ruler Saite second century BCE settlement social soldiers strategos structure suggest tax farming taxation Tebt Tebtunis temple estate temple land Thebaid Theban revolt Thebes third century BCE Thompson tradition Upper Egypt Vandorpe Verhoogt village scribe Vleeming