Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt: Volume 2, Historical Studies - Clarysse, Willy (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) a Thompson, Dorothy J. (University of Cambridge)

This book consists of two closely related parts. Volume I publishes fifty-four Ptolemaic papyri from the Fayum and Middle Egypt, with English translations and extensive commentaries. Volume II uses these texts, created for purposes of taxation, to provide historical studies analysing fundamental aspects of Ptolemaic Egypt.