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Poll Tax Rates in Roman Egypt

Poll Tax Rates in Roman Egypt AbstractDiscussion of the various poll tax rates in Roman Egypt, which can be reduced to a simple scheme drawn up by the Romans upon their conquest of Egypt. This scheme suggests that in 30 BC the distribution of the population in Egypt was roughly uniform except for the Fayyum (underpopulated) and the western oases (overpopulated), possibly also Thebes (overpopulated). It also suggests that in 30 BC the distribution of the Greek population was uneven, with virtually no Greeks in Upper Egypt, possibly also the oases, and fewer Greeks in Oxyrhynchus than in other metropoleis in Lower and Middle Egypt. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete de Gruyter

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Publisher
de Gruyter
Copyright
© 2022 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
ISSN
1867-1551
eISSN
1867-1551
DOI
10.1515/apf-2022-0015
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Abstract

AbstractDiscussion of the various poll tax rates in Roman Egypt, which can be reduced to a simple scheme drawn up by the Romans upon their conquest of Egypt. This scheme suggests that in 30 BC the distribution of the population in Egypt was roughly uniform except for the Fayyum (underpopulated) and the western oases (overpopulated), possibly also Thebes (overpopulated). It also suggests that in 30 BC the distribution of the Greek population was uneven, with virtually no Greeks in Upper Egypt, possibly also the oases, and fewer Greeks in Oxyrhynchus than in other metropoleis in Lower and Middle Egypt.

Journal

Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebietede Gruyter

Published: Dec 1, 2022

Keywords: poll tax; population; Greeks; Fayyum; Oxyrhynchus

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