Brief Description:
Important new study of the economic and social history of Ptolemaic Egypt, based on the salt-tax registers of P.Count.

Review Quotes:
'... an invaluable contribution and essential reading for all students of ancient history, Egypt and papyri.' The Journal of Classics Teaching

Marc Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-377) and index.;Vol. 1: Population registers, Vol. 2: Historical studies.

Review Quotes:
'these volumes are a must-read for anybody interested in Ptolemaic Egypt, or the Hellenistic world at large ... a wonderful piece of scholarship, setting the framework of Ptolemaic society ...' Sehepunkite

Contributor Bio:Clarysse, Willy
Willy Clarysse is a Fellow of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium and teaches in the Departments of Classics and the Ancient Near East at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is the author of Prosopographia Ptolemaica IX, Addenda et corrigenda au volume III (1981), The Petrie Papyri (second edition), I. The Wills (1991) and of the Leuven Database of Ancient Books (htpp: //ldab.arts.kuleuven.ac.be).

Contributor Bio:Thompson, Dorothy J
Dorothy J. Thompson, a Fellow of the British Academy, teaches ancient history in the University of Cambridge where she is Isaac Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics and a Fellow of Girton College. She is the author of Memphis under the Ptolemies (1988).