The Ptolemaic epigraphe or harvest tax (shemu)

Vandorpe, Katelijn

doi:10.1515/apf.2000.46.2.169

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“…Vandorpe, however, offers another hypothesis in her study of the Ptolemaic grain harvest tax. 609 She agrees with Kaplony-Heckel about the r-rx=w receipts being connected with the grain harvest tax but, in her view, their purpose was different. She argues that the epigraphe, which was the main tax imposed on grain-bearing land, was calculated each year after the inundation of the Nile.…”

Section: Farmers and Land-holdersmentioning

confidence: 74%

The Jews of Ptolemaic Egypt in the Light of the Papyri

Szántó¹

2016

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supervisors when I began my doctoral studies in ancient history at the Eötvös Loránd University. Since then, he has continuously supported and guided me in my research. I am also grateful to Prof. György Németh, the Head of the doctoral program and the department of Ancient Studies, who became my inner supervisor. He has also been very supportive and always encouraged me to apply for different scholarships.Indeed, the compilation of this thesis would not have been possible without the help of grants and scholarships. The support of the grant entitled TÁMOP-4.2.1.B-09/1/KMR "Kultúrák közötti párbeszéd," made it possible for me to spend one month in the Papyrussammlung (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) in Vienna in January 2012. I will never be able to thank enough Prof. Bernhard Palme, the director of the Papyrussamlung, for his permission to research and work in the papyrus collection, which has certainly one of the best libraries in the world in terms of papyrology. Since then, I have been enjoying his constant support whenever I need to go to the Papyrussammlung.I was also very lucky to have been selected to participate in the Summer Papyrological Institute that was held at the University of Chicago in July 2012. I owe many thanks to Prof.

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Section: Farmers and Land-holdersmentioning

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The Jews of Ptolemaic Egypt in the Light of the Papyri

Szántó¹

2016

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“…However, what is for sure is that property rights were increasingly enforced in the course of the Ptolemaic period. On this, in accordance with Vandorpe (2000) and Manning (2007), Von Reden (2010: 105) writes that not only are the forms of land holdings on Egyptian temple estates nowadays regarded as nearly private, but klerouchic property rights also became increasingly stable as well as inheritable in the course of the 300 years of Ptolemaic rule.…”

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The evolution of property rights in Hellenistic Greece and the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt

Economou

Kyriazis

2019

Journal of Institutional Economics

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In the present paper we trace the development of property rights during the Hellenistic period (3rd–2nd centuries bce), focusing on Athens, the democratic Hellenistic federations and the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt. Property rights had been already well developed and protected by courts and state laws during the previous Classical period in ancient Greece, but we argue that they further evolved during the Hellenistic period due to the introduction of a series of new political and economic institutions. We found that there was a causal relationship between the evolution of property rights and the further development of economic institutions in Hellenistic Athens and the Hellenistic federations. We finally argue that the development and adoption of market-oriented economic institutions by the Ptolemaic Kingdom should be attributed to the great influence that these institutions had in the entire Hellenistic world, which resulted in their diffusion from the democratic states to kingdoms.

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“…Limiting them were the king's rights to the harvests at variable rates determined by officials (Vandorpe 2000;Muhs 2005: 62-3). This harvest tax is alternatively termed the "rent in grain", which many scholars insist means that owners only leased their land from the king (Vandorpe 2000;Christensen 2002; Monson forthcoming a). The assessment of harvest taxes on private land was much like that on royal land in the Fayyum.…”

Section: Political Instability In Ptolemaic Egyptmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They date from the early second century BC to 14 AD, the end of the reign of Augustus. Vandorpe is the first to interpret these texts convincingly and to demonstrate their significance (Vandorpe 2000). The dozens of examples published so far indicate that the rate of the harvest tax in these regions varied between four and ten artabas of wheat per aroura (Kaplony-Heckel and Kramer 1985;Kaplony-Heckel 1993;Vandorpe 2000: 196).…”

Section: Political Instability In Ptolemaic Egyptmentioning

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“…The low price of land has also been noted in pharaonic Egypt but not sufficiently explained (Baer 1962). The fiscal regime of variable and relatively high harvest taxes, which also applied in earlier periods of Egyptian history, may partially account for it (Vandorpe 2000(Vandorpe , 2007. Similarly, private leasing, and hence the possibility for larger accumulations of land, tends to be associated with land charged the one-artaba tax in Ptolemaic Egypt such as soldiers' allotments or temple land that had a privileged fiscal status.…”

Section: Fiscal Reform In Roman Egyptmentioning

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Rule and Revenue in Egypt and Rome: Political Stability and Fiscal Institutions

Monson

2007

SSRN Journal

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»Herrschaft und Staatseinkommen in Ägypten und Rom: Zur Wechselwirkung von Politischer Stabilität und Besteuerung«. This paper investigates what determines fiscal institutions and the burden of taxation using a case study from ancient history. It evaluates Levi's model of taxation in the Roman Republic, according to which rulers' high discount rates in periods of political instability encourage them to adopt a more predatory fiscal regime. The evidence for fiscal reform in the transition from the Republic to the Principate seems to support her hypothesis but remains a matter of debate among historians. Egypt's transition from a Hellenistic kingdom to a Roman province under the Principate provides an analogous case for which there are better data. The Egyptian evidence shows a correlation between rulers' discount rates and fiscal regimes that is consistent with Levi's hypothesis.

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The Ptolemaic epigraphe or harvest tax (shemu)

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The Jews of Ptolemaic Egypt in the Light of the Papyri

The Jews of Ptolemaic Egypt in the Light of the Papyri

The evolution of property rights in Hellenistic Greece and the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt

Rule and Revenue in Egypt and Rome: Political Stability and Fiscal Institutions

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