Die altägyptische Ökonomie: Eine Skizze

Das ökonomische System des pharaonischen und griechisch-römischen Ägypten basiert auf sich selbst versorgenden Kleinfamilien, Pachtbauern, deren Äcker dem Staat, einem Tempel oder einem Mitglied der Elite gehören. Alle anderen nicht-agrarisch tätige Gruppen waren ebenfalls von einer der Institutionen abhängig und wurden durch die (staatliche) Umverteilung von Gütern, die über ein Abgabensystem eingezogen wurden, versorgt. Daneben ist freier Handel belegt, der bis zum Ende der pharaonischen Zeit auf Tauschhandel mit Stoff, Metallen und Getreide als Wertmaßstab beruhte. Durch Außenhandel, Beschaffungsexpeditionen und Kriegszüge wurde der Bedarf an verschiedenen Rohstoffen und Arbeitskräften gedeckt

Agreements and accounts: On-going research on economic activities of the temple of Soknopaiou Nesos according to the Demotic texts

At the 1st International Fayum Congress in Sommerhausen in 2003 we presented a paper on the economy of the temple of Soknopaios with results of the then still on-going five-year research project initiated by Karl-Theodor Zauzich in 2000 which aimed at the edition of the late Demotic documentary texts from Dime/Soknopaiou Nesos (30 BCE to 2nd century CE).2 At the time, our study was based mainly on ostraca and receipts pertaining to the temple’s financial administration, whereas two text types which are essential to this subject were still largely unexplored: accounts and agreements, both of which are very well represented in the Demotic material from Soknopaiou Nesos. We gave a preliminary report on the agreements at the 2nd International Fayum Congress in Lecce in 20053 , and by the end of the project, the edition volumes on ostraca and receipts were under press4 . But although Karl-Theodor Zauzich and ourselves had done preliminary work by making transliterations and translations of those accounts and agreements of which we already had photographs, the two volumes on theses texts were far from publication-ready, especially since the known source material had exponentially increased through our research in collections

Demotic ostraca and their use in Egyptian temple context from the Greco-Roman period: Soknopaiou Nesos and Hut-Repit

The focus of this article lies on the ostraca from the temple complexes of Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum and Hut-Repit in Middle Egypt written in Demotic, a cursive writing system used from the seventh century BCE to the fifth century CE. The two roughly contemporary sets of ostraca provide the opportunity to compare the use of Demotic ostraca for different text forms and text types and the role of potsherds versus other writing materials in the administrative, economic, and cultic life of Egyptian provincial temples in the late Ptolemaic to early Roman period

8. Verkaufsurkunde \ufcber einen Hausteil (urspr\ufcnglich als Sicherheit)

Il contributo contiene la prima edizione della parte greca di un contratto demotico-greco relativo a una compravendita di casa situata nel villaggio di Socnopaiou Nesos

Verkaufsurkunde \ufcber ein Haus

Il contributo contiene la prima edizione della parte greca di un contratto demotico-greco relativo a una compravendita di casa situata nel villaggio di Socnopaiou Nesos