
Published online:
21 January 2021
Published in print:
20 August 2020
Online ISBN:
9780191916069
Print ISBN:
9780197266779
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4.1 Introduction 4.1 Introduction
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4.2 Elders of the Farmers and Village Elders 4.2 Elders of the Farmers and Village Elders
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4.3 The Evidence from Bacchias and Karanis (First to Second Centuries AD) 4.3 The Evidence from Bacchias and Karanis (First to Second Centuries AD)
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4.4 Status and Functions of the Elders 4.4 Status and Functions of the Elders
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4.5 Conclusions 4.5 Conclusions
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Documents from Bacchias Documents from Bacchias
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Documents from Karanis Documents from Karanis
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References References
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Chapter
4 Elders (Presbuteroi) of the Farmers and of the Village in Roman Egypt: The Cases of Bacchias and Karanis
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66–81
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Published:August 2020
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Strassi, Silvia, 'Elders (Presbuteroi) of the Farmers and of the Village in Roman Egypt: The Cases of Bacchias and Karanis', Village Institutions in Egypt in the Roman to Early Arab Periods (London , 2020; online edn, British Academy Scholarship Online, 21 Jan. 2021), https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266779.003.0004, accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter examines the nature and role of the elders of the public farmers (presbuteroi georgon) and the village elders (presbuteroi komes) at Bacchias and Karanis in the first two centuries of Roman rule (AD I-II), using the Greek papyri. Although geographically very close, lying by the same canal, these two villages were very different in historical and socio-economic terms, which makes a comparative investigation of their elders particularly interesting.
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Urban and Rural Studies
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