#PAPYRUS SCROLL ANCIENT EGYPT SERIES#

It is worth the trouble, since to three indications from the past, which apply to the years 407, 333, and 322, are added – independently of those provided by papyrology – 18 others which are spread out over thirteen years between 296 and 179.

#PAPYRUS SCROLL ANCIENT EGYPT SERIES#

Now that Durrbach has published a second series of Delian inscriptions (1926) and is going to publish a third whose proofs I have read, and as a result of which I have dispose of new data for the years 231-179 BCE, I would like to return to the overall question. Billig was er nicht ” and he gives the reasons for its dearness which he admits for all of antiquity, without distinction as to period.

39): “Ueber die Preise des papyrus wissen wir trotz verienzelten Angaben ungefähr nichts. But I must note that this article remained in those shadows into which writings published in scientific reviews are plunged: Schubart, in his excellent Einfürung in die Papyruskunde, which appeared in 1918, says (p. When in 1912 Durrbach published the accounts of the Delian hieropes of the period 314-250 I observed in an article “On the Price of Goods in Delos” that these accounts provided a fair number of new indications concerning the price of papyrus and refuted those authors who had treated the question. Only Gardthausen was of the opinion that it was dear before and after the Hellenistic period, but for four centuries the low cost of primary materials and labor, as well was the facilities for fabrication, allowed Ptolemaic Egypt to furnish an inexpensive product to the Mediterranean world. While lamenting the rarity of information, most authors maintained that papyrus had always been dear. Until 1912 we only found three indications on the question in our literary and epigraphic documents, which were in any case contradictory. Since it is a matter of a product and commerce exclusively Egyptian, it also has its importance in economic history and, as we shall see, in the history of international relations. The question is not only of great interest for the history of civilization. Scholars have often asked what the price of paper of papyrus fiber was in the countries of ancient Greece. Translated: for by Mitchell Abidor ĬopyLeft: Creative Commons (Attribute & ShareAlike) 2009. Source: Annales d’histore économique et sociale. The Annales School 1929 The Price of Papyrus in Greek Antiquity by Gustave Glotz The Price of Papyrus in Greek Antiquity, Gustave Glotz 1929

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