Projects
The family in republican Italy: a comparative study of family relationships in Lazio, Etruria and Campania (ca. 509 - 31 B.C.). Ghent University
This interdisciplinary project aims at the comparative analysis of family relationships in Lazio, Etruria and Campania at the time of the Roman Republic (ca. 509 - 31 B.C.). What did these relations look like and how did they evolve? To what extent were they influenced by the Roman integration of Italy? This project will shed light on the social history and connectedness of these regions.
"Everything managed in the best way". Government investments and well-being under the Ptolemies (332-20 BC) KU Leuven
The special documentation of Hellenistic Egypt (papyri and other) informs us in detail about the complex fiscal system and hence the country isknown for its many taxes. But does that imply that the tax burden was high, and if so, that people were dissatisfied with government policies? For example, Denmark is one of the countries with the highest tax burden, but nowhere in the world are people happier, at least according to the2013 World ...
Making Minoan Society. The formation and interaction of group identities in Crete during the Middle and early Late Bronze Age (c. 2100-1470 BC). KU Leuven
Traditionally Bronze Age Cretan (Minoan) society has been treated as a homogenous, islandwide entity, characterised by the interaction of similarly organised settlements and explained in relation to generalised social models. In this narrative the principal actors are settlements and the ‘elites’ assumed to have controlled them. However, recent work has noted considerable temporal and regional diversity in how society was constructed and has ...
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Archaeological desktop study Princess Elisabeth Zone BCP Flanders Marine Institute
Burdened by taxes? Measuring the tax load in Hellenistic Egypt (332-30 BC) KU Leuven
The special documentation of Ptolemaic Egypt (thousands of papyri and potsherds containing among other things tax receipts and tax lists) informs us in detail about the complex fiscal system. Hence the country is known for its many taxes and its bureaucracy. But does that imply that the tax burden was high? The project wants to measure, for the first time, the tax burden in Egypt by using a new typology of taxes combined with representative ...
Burdened by taxes? Measuring the tax load in Hellenistic Egypt (332-30 BC) KU Leuven
The special documentation of Ptolemaic Egypt (thousands of papyri and potsherds containing among other things tax receipts and tax lists) informs us in detail about the complex fiscal system. Hence the country is known for its many taxes and its bureaucracy. But does that imply that the tax burden was high? The project wants to measure, for the first time, the tax burden in Egypt by using a new typology of taxes combined with representative ...
Priests en Profits 2.0. The Role of the Temple in the Old Babylonian Economy (1911-1499 BC) Ghent University
The aim of this project is to develop the first comprehensive study of the economic role of the Old Babylonian temples as institutions and their evolving relation with the Palace and the urban elites, by combining data from the temple archives as well as private archives from different cities in southern, central and northern Babylonia.
Scribal corrections, language variation and language change in Greek documentary papyri from Egypt (300 BCE – 800 CE) Ghent University
Greek documentary papyri from Egypt provide an important source for the study of language change in post-Classical Greek. These papyri contain a special type of information which has not been studied before: corrections made by ancient scribes. This project aims to study these scribal ‘errors’ and their corrections. What were the norms that these writers were trying to follow?