Regaling Officials in Ptolemaic Egypt: A Dramatic Reading of Official Accounts from the Menches Papers ; (P.L. Bat. 32)Financial accounts on papyri relating to Roman and Byzantine periods have been transformed into fascinating historical sources by considering the precise contexts in which they were drafted, says Verhoogt (papyrology and classical Greek, U. of Michigan), and he here applies the same approach to Ptolemaic accounts of income and expenditures. He republishes and newly interprets five accounts from the second-century BCE Menches papers. Two were partially published and the other three only briefly described in the 1902 first volume of The Tebtunis Papyri, during a period when literary texts and correspondence were considered sexy historical sources, and confusing and repetitive accounts were neglected. In addition, he says, much more comparative material is now available. He introduces them as a group, and comments on each one as well as translating the texts. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com). |
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P Tebt I 112 P Tebt 1151 Account of income and expenditure | 71 |
P Tebt I 185 P Tebt 1152 Account of income and expenditure | 151 |
P Tebt I 213 P Tebt 1153 Account of income and expenditure | 165 |
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