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

by D. Brent Sandy

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555400752
• ISBN13: 9781555400750
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: American Society of Papyrologists
• Length: 136 Pages