The Ties That Bind The Economic Relationships Of Twelve Tebtunis Families

Author : Ryosuke Takahashi
Publisher : University of London Press
Page : 200 pages
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Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1905670915

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The Ties That Bind: the Economic Relationships of Twelve Tebtunis Families by Ryosuke Takahashi Pdf

An intimate insight into the lives of twelve families in the Ancient Egyptian village of Tebtunis. Tebtunis, an ancient village formerly located in lower Egypt, is one of the most enduring subjects of study from the civilization's Roman era. This fascinating volume details a dozen newly-discovered family papers that have survived from the second century AD. Belonging to families of various different classes, this unique documentation provides a rare opportunity to explore how local elites under Roman rule exploited their wealth in the countryside and interacted with its rural inhabitants. Ties That Bind is the first book to investigate these family papers holistically, focusing on the economic activities in which the families engaged: land leases, loans in cash and kind, and the employment of managers and laborers on landed estates. This study also addresses strategy and decision-making among both elite families and villagers, the complexity of interfamilial relationships, and the implications of this social networking. This micro-historical study elucidates the diversity of socio-economic life in a village where no single family dominated.

Author : Jane L. Rowlandson,Roger S. Bagnall,Dorothy J. Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009488280

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Slavery and Dependence in Ancient Egypt by Jane L. Rowlandson,Roger S. Bagnall,Dorothy J. Thompson Pdf

Aimed at students, instructors and general readers interested in the experiences of enslaved persons in ancient Egypt, from the Old Kingdom to the early Islamic period. Provides nearly three hundred primary sources in translation, arranged both chronologically and thematically and accompanied by contextualising introductions.

Author : Jesús Huerta de Soto
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : 9781610163880

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Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles by Jesús Huerta de Soto Pdf

Author : Roger S. Bagnall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199843695

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The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology by Roger S. Bagnall Pdf

Thousands of documentary and literary texts written on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Persian, have transformed our knowledge of many aspects of life in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Here experts provide a comprehensive guide to understanding this ancient documentary evidence.

Author : Michael Rostovtzeff
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9353953510

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A Large Estate in Egypt in the Third Century B.C., a Study in Economic History by Michael Rostovtzeff Pdf

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Author : M. Rostovtzeff
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : History
ISBN : 0819621641

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The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire by M. Rostovtzeff Pdf

Author : Philip A. Harland
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567111463

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Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians by Philip A. Harland Pdf

This study sheds new light on identity formation and maintenance in the world of the early Christians by drawing on neglected archaeological and epigraphic evidence concerning associations and immigrant groups and by incorporating insights from the social sciences. The study's unique contribution relates, in part, to its interdisciplinary character, standing at the intersection of Christian Origins, Jewish Studies, Classical Studies, and the Social Sciences. It also breaks new ground in its thoroughly comparative framework, giving the Greek and Roman evidence its due, not as mere background but as an integral factor in understanding dynamics of identity among early Christians. This makes the work particularly well suited as a text for courses that aim to understand early Christian groups and literature, including the New Testament, in relation to their Greek, Roman, and Judean contexts. Inscriptions pertaining to associations provide a new angle of vision on the ways in which members in Christian congregations and Jewish synagogues experienced belonging and expressed their identities within the Greco-Roman world. The many other groups of immigrants throughout the cities of the empire provide a particularly appropriate framework for understanding both synagogues of Judeans and groups of Jesus-followers as minority cultural groups in these same contexts. Moreover, there were both shared means of expressing identity (including fictive familial metaphors) and peculiarities in the case of both Jews and Christians as minority cultural groups, who (like other "foreigners") were sometimes characterized as dangerous, alien "anti-associations". By paying close attention to dynamics of identity and belonging within associations and cultural minority groups, we can gain new insights into Pauline, Johannine, and other early Christian communities.

Author : Michael Given
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134200801

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The Archaeology of the Colonized by Michael Given Pdf

This book investigates the experience of the colonized in their landscape setting, and proposes an 'archaeology of taxation' to investigate the relationship between local community and central control.

Author : Marie Svoboda,Caroline Cartwright
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606066539

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Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt by Marie Svoboda,Caroline Cartwright Pdf

This publication presents fascinating new findings on ancient Romano-Egyptian funerary portraits preserved in international collections. Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago. Until recently, few of these paintings had undergone in-depth study to determine by whom they were made and how. An international collaboration known as APPEAR (Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Analysis, and Research) was launched in 2013 to promote the study of these objects and to gather scientific and historical findings into a shared database. The first phase of the project was marked with a two-day conference at the Getty Villa. Conservators, scientists, and curators presented new research on topics such as provenance and collecting, comparisons of works across institutions, and scientific studies of pigments, binders, and supports. The papers and posters from the conference are collected in this publication, which offers the most up-to-date information available about these fascinating remnants of the ancient world. The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at www.getty.edu/publications/mummyportraits/ and includes zoomable illustrations and graphs. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book.

Author : Andrew Gardner,Edward Herring,Kathryn Lomas
Publisher : University of London Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN : 190567046X

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Creating Ethnicities & Identities in the Roman World by Andrew Gardner,Edward Herring,Kathryn Lomas Pdf

"This volume arises from two inter-related sessions presented at the 7th Roman Archaeology Conference, held at UCL and Birkbeck College in March 2007"--Page vii.

Author : Christelle Fischer-Bovet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107007758

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Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt by Christelle Fischer-Bovet Pdf

This book examines how the army developed as an engine of socio-economic and cultural integration in Egypt under Greco-Macedonian rule.

Author : Valentino Gasparini,Maik Patzelt,Rubina Raja,Anna-Katharina Rieger,Jörg Rüpke,Emiliano Urciuoli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110557947

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Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World by Valentino Gasparini,Maik Patzelt,Rubina Raja,Anna-Katharina Rieger,Jörg Rüpke,Emiliano Urciuoli Pdf

The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new perspectives and new questions. The religious transformations of the Roman Imperial period appear in new light and more nuances by comparative confrontation and the integration of many disciplines. The contributions are written by specialists from a variety of disciplinary contexts (Jewish Studies, Theology, Classics, Early Christian Studies) dealing with the history of religion of the Mediterranean, West-Asian, and European area from the (late) Hellenistic period to the (early) Middle Ages and shaped by their intensive exchange. From the point of view of their respective fields of research, the contributors engage with discourses on agency, embodiment, appropriation and experience. They present innovative research in four fields also of theoretical debate, which are “Experiencing the Religious”, “Switching the Code”, „A Thing Called Body“ and “Commemorating the Moment”.

Author : David Hollander,Timothy Howe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118970942

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A Companion to Ancient Agriculture by David Hollander,Timothy Howe Pdf

The first book-length overview of agricultural development in the ancient world A Companion to Ancient Agriculture is an authoritative overview of the history and development of agriculture in the ancient world. Focusing primarily on the Near East and Mediterranean regions, this unique text explores the cultivation of the soil and rearing of animals through centuries of human civilization—from the Neolithic beginnings of agriculture to Late Antiquity. Chapters written by the leading scholars in their fields present a multidisciplinary examination of the agricultural methods and influences that have enabled humans to survive and prosper. Consisting of thirty-one chapters, the Companion presents essays on a range of topics that include economic-political, anthropological, zooarchaeological, ethnobotanical, and archaeobotanical investigation of ancient agriculture. Chronologically-organized chapters offer in-depth discussions of agriculture in Bronze Age Egypt and Mesopotamia, Hellenistic Greece and Imperial Rome, Iran and Central Asia, and other regions. Sections on comparative agricultural history discuss agriculture in the Indian subcontinent and prehistoric China while an insightful concluding section helps readers understand ancient agriculture from a modern perspective. Fills the need for a full-length biophysical and social overview of ancient agriculture Provides clear accounts of the current state of research written by experts in their respective areas Places ancient Mediterranean agriculture in conversation with contemporary practice in Eastern and Southern Asia Includes coverage of analysis of stable isotopes in ancient agricultural cultivation Offers plentiful illustrations, references, case studies, and further reading suggestions A Companion to Ancient Agriculture is a much-needed resource for advanced students, instructors, scholars, and researchers in fields such as agricultural history, ancient economics, and in broader disciplines including classics, archaeology, and ancient history.

Author : M. Silver
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789400974180

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Prophets and Markets by M. Silver Pdf

5 by predations of the sea peoples. However, the weakening of Mycenean seapower, the destruction of the Hittite kingdom, and finally, the limitation on Philistine strength resulting from the alliance between David and the king of Tyre in the eleventh century, combined to open up "for the Phoenicians, in the first quarter of the first millennium B. C. E. vast overseas trading areas" (Oded 1979a, p. 228). By the end of the eleventh century, pottery from Cyprus, after a long absence could once again be found in Israelite-occupied sites (Albright 1960, p. 47). The expansion of the sea trade in the Mediterranean in which, judging by the song of Deborah (Judg. 5), the northern tribes of Asher and Dan (?) (see figure 1-2) would have parti cipated, was accompanied by the inauguration of camel caravans trans porting the goods of southern Arabia to and through Israel (see Bulliet 1975, especially p. 36). Military victories over the Philistines and Syrians, receipts of tribute, and the collection of tolls from the control of trade routes together with the general revival of trade all contributed to Israel's growing wealth. Indeed, the David-Solomon period (most of the tenth century) is often portrayed as the peak of Israelite economic development. In fact there is precious little extra biblical evidence supporting this portrayal. For example, in spite of the reported activity of David and Solomon's scribes, only one example of 6 "Hebrew" writing from this period, the Gezer Calendar, has been found.

Author : Nicola Reggiani
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110547597

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Digital Papyrology II by Nicola Reggiani Pdf

The ongoing digitisation of the literary papyri (and related technical texts like the medical papyri) is leading to new thoughts on the concept and shape of the "digital critical edition" of ancient documents. First of all, there is the need of representing any textual and paratextual feature as much as possible, and of encoding them in a semantic markup that is very different from a traditional critical edition, based on the mere display of information. Moreover, several new tools allow us to reconsider not only the linguistic dimension of the ancient texts (from exploiting the potentialities of linguistic annotation to a full consideration of language variation as a key to socio-cultural analysis), but also the very concept of philological variation (replacing the mono-authorial view of an reconstructed archetype with a dynamic multitextual model closer to the fluid aspect of the textual transmission). The contributors, experts in the application of digital strategies to the papyrological research, face these issues from their own viewpoints, not without glimpses on parallel fields like Egyptology and Near Eastern studies. The result is a new, original and cross-disciplinary overview of a key issue in the digital humanities.