Economic Rationalism and Rural Society in Third-Century AD Egypt

The Heroninos Archive and the Appianus Estate

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Hardcover | 11 November 1991

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This book reconstructs the life and workings of the Appianus estate in the Fayum district of Egypt under Roman rule in the third century AD. Basing his study on the extensive documentary evidence of the Heroninos archive, consisting of hundreds of letters and accounts on papyrus, Dr Rathbone examines first the nature of rural society at the time, and in particular the status of estate owners, their relations with their upper-class managers and the social and economic position of the estate's workforce and outside contacts. He then looks at the organization and running of the estate, the production and marketing of its crops and centrally directed transport system, and, above all, its use of credit arrangements and its system of accounting. This was one of the most sophisticated yet known in the ancient world and the author uses this example of economic rationalism to challenge the common belief that economic thought and practice were uniformly 'primitive' in the ancient world. Appendices include an index of all the published texts of the Heroninos archive, and two of Heroninos' accounts with an English translation.

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"...Rathbone's preliminary study offers the historian invaluable evidence on the accounting systems and high degree of monetization of estates in Roman Egypt during a time when inflation reputedly was driving most to abandon the use of coins. Rathbone has done a fine service to future scholars by assembling the published papyri of this family, and his book will serve as the basis for the organization of the rest of Appianus' records." Choice

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List of figures and map
List of tables
Preface
List of abbreviations and notes for the reader
The archive and the estate
Owners and managers
Permanent labour
Occasional labour
Lessees and other contractors
Production on the phrontides
Transport, marketing and monetisation
The accounts
Conclusions
Papyrological matters
Measures and prices of wheat and of wine
Indexes
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Economic Rationalism and Rural Society in Third-Century AD Egypt

The Heroninos Archive and the Appianus Estate

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