TY - JOUR
AU - McGing, Brian C.
AB -  niegal salt in the Lycopolite nome With Plate IV Brian C. McGing (Dublin)1 It is surprising, given its crucial function in everyday life, that we hear so little about salt in the documentation from Greco-Roman Egypt.2 We hear plenty, relatively speaking, about the Ptolemaic salt tax (), but it is clear this was a poll tax that scholars now agree had nothing to do with actual salt.3 The number of Ptolemaic documents which deal with salt itself and provide any helpful context is extremely limited. That salt was produced and sold under government monopoly is clear from P.Sorb. I, 35 (225 BC) and P.Tebt. II, 732 (142 BC). In the latter reference is made to the auctioning by the epimeletes, Apollonios, of a contract for the sale of salt in the Arsinoite nome; and P.Sorb. I, 35, also from the Arsinoite, records the security arranged to cover the liability of a certain Horos for 455 drachmas worth of rock salt ( ). The present text provides the only other reference in the papyri to rock salt. Horos may have bought exactly the sort of contract being auctioned by Apollonios in the Tebtunis text, or perhaps there were other 
TI - Illegal salt in the Lycopolite nome
JF - Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete
DO - 10.1515/apf.2002.48.1.42
DA - 2002-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/de-gruyter/illegal-salt-in-the-lycopolite-nome-cSITT2I8ej
SP - 42
EP - 66
VL - 48
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -