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- The Great Oasis of Egypt
- The Great Oasis of Egypt
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Living in the Oasis: Humans and the Environment
- Part II Managing the Oasis
- 5 The Great Oasis: An Administrative Entity from Pharaonic Times to Roman Times
- 6 Land and Resource Administration: Farmers, Managers, and Soldiers in the Great Oasis
- 7 What Remains in the Hands of the Gods: Taxation in Kharga Oasis through the Demotic Ostraca (Fifth Century BC to First Century AD)
- Part III Trade and Mobility in a Connected Environment
- Part IV An Oasis Culture?
- Bibliography
- Index of ancient people
- Index of places
- General index
6 - Land and Resource Administration: Farmers, Managers, and Soldiers in the Great Oasis
from Part II - Managing the Oasis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 July 2019
- The Great Oasis of Egypt
- The Great Oasis of Egypt
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Living in the Oasis: Humans and the Environment
- Part II Managing the Oasis
- 5 The Great Oasis: An Administrative Entity from Pharaonic Times to Roman Times
- 6 Land and Resource Administration: Farmers, Managers, and Soldiers in the Great Oasis
- 7 What Remains in the Hands of the Gods: Taxation in Kharga Oasis through the Demotic Ostraca (Fifth Century BC to First Century AD)
- Part III Trade and Mobility in a Connected Environment
- Part IV An Oasis Culture?
- Bibliography
- Index of ancient people
- Index of places
- General index
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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- The Great Oasis of EgyptThe Kharga and Dakhla Oases in Antiquity, pp. 105 - 121Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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