Slavery and Dependence in Ancient Egypt: Sources in Translation

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JANE L. ROWLANDSON was a Reader in Ancient History at King's College London. She was the author and editor of several monumental publications including Landowners and Tenants in Roman Egypt (1996) and Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt (Cambridge 1998). This current sourcebook was one of her remaining projects and it is now dedicated to her memory. Roger S. Bagnall is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and founding Leon Levy Director Emeritus of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. His publications include numerous books on the documents and social and economic history of Roman and Late Antique Egypt. He is President of the American Philosophical Society. DOROTHY J. THOMPSON is a Life Fellow of Girton College Cambridge a Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary President of the International Association of Papyrologists. Her books include Kerkeosiris: An Egyptian Village in the Ptolemaic Period (Cambridge 1971) Memphis under the Ptolemies (2nd edition 2012) and (joint with Willy Clarysse) Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt (Cambridge 2006).