Texts from the "Archive" of Socrates, the Tax Collector, and Other Contexts at Karanis
Author | : Mohamed Gaber El-Maghrabi |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2015-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110383888 |
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This volume contains 25 papyri, which were excavated in the village of Karanis in the north-eastern Fayum by American archaeologists (1924-1926). Half of the new texts are literary, mostly from the library of the tax collector Socrates; the others are documents that can shed new light on the activities of the tax collector or of other inhabitants of Karanis. They give us a vivid picture of village life in Graeco-Roman Egypt in the 2nd century AD.