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Document Details : Title: Ptolemaic Pigs Subtitle: An Ecological Study Author(s): THOMPSON, Dorothy J. Journal: Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists Volume: 39 Date: 2002 Pages: 121-138 DOI: 10.2143/BASP.39.0.3278551 Abstract : This study aims to set papyrological evidence on Ptolemaic pig farming alongside the results of earlier excavations from Amarna, and to place this activity within a geographical and climatological context at a time when the market demand of immigrant Greeks in Alexandria and other cities was responsible for an increased demand for pork and sacrificial animals. The different traditions of Greece and Egypt are considered both lexicographically and in terms of breeds, as are the different operations of pig rearing found in the Zenon and other papyri. Besides their agricultural use, the role of pigs in Fayum reclamation work is stressed. |
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