Landowners and Tenants in Roman Egypt
Landowners and Tenants in Roman Egypt By Jane Rowlandson
1996 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 019814735X | PDF | 8 MB
1996 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 019814735X | PDF | 8 MB
Oxyrynchus in Egypt is the best documented city of the Roman empire. This book uses the thousands of papyrus documents found there to examine how its urban landowning class derived its wealth from the outlying rural lands, and the relationships they held with their tenants.