Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt: Volume 1, Population Registers (P. Count)

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Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt: Volume 1, Population Registers (P. Count)This volume publishes fifty four Ptolemaic papyri from the Fayum and Middle Egypt, with English translations and extensive commentaries. The texts, dating from c. 250150 BC and written in either Greek or Egyptian demotic, record lists of adults, ordered by village, occupation and social group, and by household, together with the taxes paid on their persons, their livestock and trades. Some are more than twenty columns long. All texts have been studied

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