Land and resource administration

• Verfasst von: Ast, Rodney [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Land and resource administration
• Titelzusatz: farmers, managers, and soldiers in the Great Oasis
• Verf.angabe: Rodney Ast
• E-Jahr: 2019
• Jahr: July 2019
• Umfang: 17 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 05.08.2020
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: The Great Oasis of Egypt
• Ort Quelle: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019
• Jahr Quelle: 2019
• Band/Heft Quelle: (2019), Seite 105-121
• ISBN Quelle: 978-1-108-59327-4
• ISBN Quelle: 978-1-108-48216-5
• ISBN Quelle: 978-1-108-74233-7
• DOI: doi:10.1017/9781108593274.006
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-AusgabeAst, Rodney: Land and resource administration. - 2019
• Sach-SW: army
• Sach-SW: bureaucracy
• Sach-SW: literacy
• Sach-SW: resource management
• Sach-SW: water
• Sach-SW: wells
• K10plus-PPN: 1726227820

Abstract

This chapter surveys a range of extant textual records (wooden tablets, jar labels, and ostraca) from the Great Oasis related to the management of water wells and of crop distribution. It looks first at the longstanding practice of documenting the condition of the wells in the oasis, before focusing on late antique evidence from both the Dakhla and Kargha oases concerned with the disbursement of these goods and on the individuals responsible for generating the records, primarily literate administrators and members of the military.