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A famous papyrus published at the end of the 19th-century by Bernard Pyne Grenfell, the papyrus Revenue Laws is a comprehensive set of regulations on farm taxes in the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (283–246), more precisely for the year –259/–258. This document contains tax regulations for the understanding of how Ptolemy II Philadelphus organized a sophisticated command economy.

Bibliography

There exists two editions of this text:

Studies:

  • Jean Bingen, Le papyrus Revenue Laws, Westdt.Verlag, 1978.


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