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Document Details : Title: The Institutional Models for Ptolemaic Royal Banks and Granaries Author(s): MUHS, Brian Journal: Ancient Society Volume: 48 Date: 2018 Pages: 83-101 DOI: 10.2143/AS.48.0.3285197 Abstract : It has been suggested that Classical Greek public and private banks served as institutional models for Ptolemaic royal banks. This paper will propose that ancient Egyptian treasuries and granaries may also have served as models. Ptolemaic royal banks were a distributed network, like earlier Egyptian treasuries and granaries, and unlike most Greek public and private banks. Ptolemaic royal banks also employed a transfer accounting system similar to those used in Egyptian state and temple treasuries and granaries, some of which predate the Ptolemaic Period. |
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