The Production and Use of Vegetable Oils in Ptolemaic Egypt

Skip to content
Skip to sales information

Authors | Instructors | Media | Booksellers | Librarians

Book cover for 'The Production and Use of Vegetable Oils in Ptolemaic Egypt'

Download cover image

Classical Studies
Archaeology
History
Papyrology

History - Ancient/Egypt
Social Science - Archaeology

The Production and Use of Vegetable Oils in Ptolemaic Egypt

BASP Suppl. No. 6

Volume 6

DB Sandy

Description

Series

American Studies in Papyrology

How vegetable oils, a dietary staple, were produced and used in Ptolemaic Egypt is considered in this volume. The Ptolemaic revenue laws and the Zenon archive provide a substantial amount of the information, and this is supplemented with literary sources and studies of oil production in premodern societies.