10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLERUCH»
Discover the use of
cleruch in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cleruch and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Kerkeosiris: An Egyptian Village in the Ptolemanic Period
Were these farmers allotted by the state, were they tenants renting the land, or
were they directly employed by the cleruch? A large variety of cultivation
arrangements is known to have existed earlier on Apollonios' gift estates,6 and
there ...
Dorothy J. Crawford, 2007
2
The Mercenaries of the Hellenistic World
authorities themselves may be taken as proved by the appearance (though rarely
) of a different class of cleruch described in documents as 1iia6096p0i (
KAripoOxoi). The precise standing of the "mercenary cleruch" is one of the
difficult ...
Guy Thompson Griffith, 1935
3
Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies
REVERSION or A LAND-GRANT TO THE CROWN ON THE DEATH or THIE
HOLDER (243—242, B.c.) CLERUCH LAND 591 cleruch. Ammonius and
Aristarchus are evidently official. (Iouguet, Papyrus grecs, no. 41 ; Wilcken,
Papyruskunde, I.
4
Greek and Demotic Texts from the Zenon Archive: (P. L. Bat. 20)
Notes For other letters of introduction in the archive concerning, or presumed to
concern cleruchs travelling to their allotments, see P. Cairo Zen. 2 59.284 (P.
Cairo Zen. 2 59.283 is a letter of introduction, probably also concerning a cleruch,
...
5
Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt: Volume 2, ...
So, in the village of 9 (after 251/250 BC), a 25-aroura settler is found living next to
an Anoubis priest on one side and a 10o-aroura cleruch on the other (lines 3-8);
close-by were the homes of 'men without fields' (probably soldiers not yet ...
Willy Clarysse, Dorothy J. Thompson, Ulrich Luft, 2006
6
The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare
Intheory, cleruchland, likeanyother inEgypt, belongedto theking; the cleruch did
not have the right to sell, mortgage, or bequeath it, and it was revocable upon his
death. In practice however, from the very outset of the scheme, cleruch land ...
Philip Sabin, Hans van Wees, Michael Whitby, 2007
7
Hellenistic Egypt: Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture
BGU VI 1269, for instance, probably from Tholthis, shows how a tes epigones
Greek sublets to an Egyptian part of a kleros he leased from a cleruch. In short, in
the Tholthis land-leases a socio-economic system appears in a clearer light than
...
Jean Bingen, Roger S. Bagnall, 2007
... paying in a portion of the produce to the state through its officials. The following
document is a letter from one official to another regarding the confiscation of an
allotment of cleruch land because of the death of the 1 E15 tt\v Kvptav i*K\ritrtav.
George Willis Botsford, Ernest Gottlieb Sihler, 1915
9
The Tebtunis Papyri ...
In some cases a cleruch was apparently threatened with the confiscation of his
holding (e. g. 64. (a) 141), unless the full amount of the §-artaba tax was
forthcoming, or unless the komogrammateus was" willing to become surety for
him (64.
Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Arthur Surridge Hunt, Josiah Gilbart Smyly, 1902
10
New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity
i1 The cleruch's allotment was still at this time considered to belong to the king.
The land reverted to him if the cleruch died without an heir or if he was resettled
elsewhere. In P. Lille II 1 we see that the treasury could lease an allotment in the
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