Papyrus Revenue Laws Explained

A famous papyrus published at the end of the 19th century by Bernard Pyne Grenfell, the papyrus Revenue Laws is a comprehensive set of regulations on farm taxes in the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (283–246), more precisely for the year –259/–258. This document contains tax regulations for the understanding of how Ptolemy II Philadelphus organized a sophisticated command economy.

Bibliography

There exists two editions of this text:

• Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Revenue Laws of Ptolemy Philadelphus, Oxford, 1896.
• Jean Bingen, Papyrus Revenue Laws, Göttingen, 1952.

Studies:

• Jean Bingen, Le papyrus Revenue Laws, Westdt.Verlag, 1978.