The last pharaohs : Egypt under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC /
Manning, Joseph Gilbert.
Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Egypt in the first millennium BC -- The historical understanding of the Ptolemaic state -- Moving beyond despotism, economic planning, and state banditry : Ptolemaic Egypt as a premodern state -- Shaping a new state : the political economy of the Ptolemies -- Creating a new economic order : economic life and economic policy under the Ptolemies -- Order and law : shaping the law in a new state -- Conclusions -- Appendix: The trial record of the property dispute held at the Temple of Wepwawet in Asyut, Upper Egypt, 170 BC, before the local laokritai-judges.
Ptolemaic dynasty, 305-30 B.C.
Pharaohs
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