The Production and Use of Vegetable Oils in Ptolemaic Egypt: BASP Suppl. No. 6

by DB Sandy

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781555400750
Publisher:	University of Michigan Press
Publication date:	01/01/1989
Series:	American Studies in Papyrology , #6
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 0.40(d)