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Landowners and tenants in Roman Egypt : the social relations of agriculture in the Oxyrhynchite Nome / Jane Rowlandson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rowlandson, Jane, author.
- Series:
- Oxford classical monographs.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford classical monographs
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land tenure--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
- Land tenure.
- Agriculture--Social aspects--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
- Agriculture.
- Oxyrhynchite Nome (Egypt)--Social conditions.
- Oxyrhynchite Nome (Egypt).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 384 pages): illustrations (black and white), maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Oxyrynchus in Egypt is one of the best documented cities of the Roman Empire. This study draws upon the thousands of papyrus documents found there to examine how the city's landowning class derived wealth from the rural hinterland, and the relationship between landowner and farming tenant.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1996.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-00498-6
- 0-19-158995-0
- 0-585-21514-6
- OCLC:
- 1406780841
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