TY  - BOOK
AU  - Verhoogt,Arthur
TI  - Regaling Officials in Ptolemaic Egypt: A Dramatic Reading of Official Accounts from the Menches Papers 
T2  - Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava
SN  - 9789047414896
AV  - PA3301 
U1  - 330.932/02 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL, 
KW  - Egyptian language
KW  - Papyri, Demotic
KW  - Scribes
KW  - Egypt
KW  - History
KW  - Sources
N2  - The book (re)publishes and newly interprets five accounts from the second century BCE Menches Papers. The book offers an imaginative historical reading of the accounts, detailing how in Ptolemaic Egypt various government officials on tour through the country side were received in one specific village (Kerkeosiris) by the local official (village scribe). The accounts also give insight into part of the financial management of the office of village scribe
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047414896
ER  -