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Village Life in Roman Egypt - Tebtunis in the First Century AD (Hardcover)
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Village Life in Roman Egypt - Tebtunis in the First Century AD (Hardcover)
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This book presents the first detailed study of Tebtunis, a village
in Egypt within the Roman Empire, in the first century AD. It is
founded on the archive material of the local notarial office, or
grapheion, which was run by a man named Kronion for most of the
mid-first century. The archive, unparalleled in antiquity, includes
over two hundred documents written on papyrus which attest a wide
range of transactions made by the villagers over defined periods of
time, in particular the years AD 42 and 45-7 under the reign of the
emperor Claudius. This evidence provides a unique insight into
various aspects of village life: the level of participation in the
written contractual economy; the socio-economic stratification of
the village, including the position of women, slaves, priests, and
the role of the elite; the functions of associations; the types and
importance of agriculture; and non-agricultural activities. This
multitude of data reveals a highly diversified village economy, a
large involvement in written transactions among all the strata of
the population, and a rural society living mostly above subsistence
level. Tebtunis provides a model of village society that can be
used to understand the majority of the population within the Roman
Empire who lived outside cities in the Mediterranean, particularly
in the other eastern and more Hellenized provinces.
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