Slavery and Dependence in Ancient Egypt

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).

• 1. Introduction Jane Rowlandson and Roger S. Bagnall; 2. Pharaonic Egypt Christopher J. Eyre; 3. The late period Brian P. Muhs and Christopher J. Tuplin; 4. Jewish perspectives on slavery in Egypt Sarah J. Pearce; 5. Ptolemaic Egypt Dorothy J. Thompson and Brian P. Muhs; 6. Roman Egypt W. Graham Claytor; 7. Byzantine and Umayyad Egypt Jane Rowlandson, Roger S. Bagnall, Jennifer Cromwell and Jelle Bruning.

'An impressive achievement that will undoubtedly pave the way for future studies of Egyptian enslavement as well as comparative studies of ancient slavery more broadly.' Ella Karev, Journal of Near Eastern Studies