TY  - BOOK
AU  - Verhoogt,René
TI  - Menches, Komogrammateus of Kerkeosiris: The Doings and Dealings of a Village Scribe in the Late Ptolemaic Period (120-110 B.C.) 
T2  - Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava
SN  - 9789004427839
AV  - JS7762.A3 
U1  - 932.021 23
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL, 
KW  - Local finance
KW  - Local officials and employees
KW  - Politics and government
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004427839
ER  -