Menches, Komogrammateus of Kerkeosiris : The Doings and Dealings of a Village Scribe in the Late Ptolemaic Period (120-110 B.C.) /
Verhoogt, René,
Menches, Komogrammateus of Kerkeosiris : The Doings and Dealings of a Village Scribe in the Late Ptolemaic Period (120-110 B.C.) / The Doings and Dealings of a Village Scribe in the Late Ptolemaic Period (120-110 B.C.) Verhoogt. - 1 online resource - Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava; 29 Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava Online, ISBN: 9789004428454 . - Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava; 29. Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava Online, ISBN: 9789004428454. .
This is the first study of Menches, village scribe ( komogrammateus ) of Kerkeosiris between 120 and 110 B.C., on the basis of the complete body of documents from his archive. The author first presents and discusses the only source material: the papyri found inside crocodile mummies at the Egyptian village Tebtunis during the winter of 1899/1900. After establishing the precise nature of these papyrus documents, the book goes on to explore what we can learn from them about Menches' (re)appointments to the post of village scribe; his position in the Ptolemaic bureaucracy; his contacts - written and otherwise - with peers and superiors; his day-to-day tasks, mainly concerned with fiscal land administration; and, in a final chapter, his dealings with a 'strike' of colleague village scribes and a 'strike' of farmers at his village.
9789004427839 9789004109261
10.1163/9789004427839 DOI
Local finance.
Local officials and employees.
Politics and government.
JS7762.A3
932.021
Menches, Komogrammateus of Kerkeosiris : The Doings and Dealings of a Village Scribe in the Late Ptolemaic Period (120-110 B.C.) / The Doings and Dealings of a Village Scribe in the Late Ptolemaic Period (120-110 B.C.) Verhoogt. - 1 online resource - Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava; 29 Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava Online, ISBN: 9789004428454 . - Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava; 29. Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava Online, ISBN: 9789004428454. .
This is the first study of Menches, village scribe ( komogrammateus ) of Kerkeosiris between 120 and 110 B.C., on the basis of the complete body of documents from his archive. The author first presents and discusses the only source material: the papyri found inside crocodile mummies at the Egyptian village Tebtunis during the winter of 1899/1900. After establishing the precise nature of these papyrus documents, the book goes on to explore what we can learn from them about Menches' (re)appointments to the post of village scribe; his position in the Ptolemaic bureaucracy; his contacts - written and otherwise - with peers and superiors; his day-to-day tasks, mainly concerned with fiscal land administration; and, in a final chapter, his dealings with a 'strike' of colleague village scribes and a 'strike' of farmers at his village.
9789004427839 9789004109261
10.1163/9789004427839 DOI
Local finance.
Local officials and employees.
Politics and government.
JS7762.A3
932.021