Land and resource administration: farmers, managers, and soldiers in the Great Oasis
This chapter surveys a range of extant textual records (wooden tablets, jar labels, and ostraca) from the Great Oasis related to the management of water wells and of crop distribution. It looks first at the longstanding practice of documenting the condition of the wells in the oasis, before focusing...
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| Format: | Chapter/Article Conference Paper |
| Language: | English |
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July 2019
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The Great Oasis of Egypt
Year: 2019, Pages: 105-121 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781108593274.006 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108593274.006 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/great-oasis-of-egypt/land-and-resource-administration-farmers-managers-and-soldiers-in-the-great-oasis/FD10E72FD940CEF1B1C85350FEA3BD5C 
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| Author Notes: | Rodney Ast |
| Summary: | This chapter surveys a range of extant textual records (wooden tablets, jar labels, and ostraca) from the Great Oasis related to the management of water wells and of crop distribution. It looks first at the longstanding practice of documenting the condition of the wells in the oasis, before focusing on late antique evidence from both the Dakhla and Kargha oases concerned with the disbursement of these goods and on the individuals responsible for generating the records, primarily literate administrators and members of the military. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 05.08.2020 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9781108593274 9781108482165 9781108742337 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781108593274.006 |