Economic Rationalism and Rural Society in Third-Century AD Egypt: The Heroninos Archive and the Appianus EstateThis book reconstructs the life and workings of the Appianus estate in the Fayum district of Egypt under Roman rule in the third century AD. Basing his study on the extensive documentary evidence of the Heroninos archive, consisting of hundreds of letters and accounts on papyrus, Dr Rathbone examines the nature of rural society at the time. |
Contents
The archive and the estate | 1 |
Owners and managers | 44 |
Permanent labour | 88 |
Lessees and other contractors | 175 |
Production on the phrontides | 212 |
Transport marketing and monetisation | 265 |
Conclusions | 388 |
Papyrological matters | 410 |
Measures and prices of wheat and of wine | 464 |
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accounts of Eirenaios Alypios Appianus and related Appianus estate Arsinoe Arsinoite nome ass-driver attested boukolos bundles cash opsonion casual labourers central administration crops dated December 260 Dionysias disbursements draft monthly accounts Eirenaios employees epoikion epoikiotai estate's Euhemeria evidence expenditure extant Gallienus harvest Herakleides estate Heronas Heroninos archive Horion implies irrigation jars karponai Kastor kleroi komarchai land leased lessees letters metrematiaioi month normally oiketai oiketes oinopolai oninos opsonia Oxyrhynchite P.Alex P.Chept P.Fay P.Flor P.Laur P.Lond P.Mich P.Prag P.Prag.Varcl P.Rein P.Ryl P.Stras P.Vindob.Gr paid papyrus permanent staff phrontis phrontistai phrontistes phrontistes of Theadelphia Pontikos Posidonios estate Pouaris presumably probably produce receipts received record of cash related estates rent Roman Egypt Syros Text I recto Text I verso Theadelphia Titanianus estate units Varcl 11 Varcl II village vineyards vintage wages wheat wine ἀπὸ ἀρτ δεσ(μ δρ εἰς καὶ ὄνοι δ