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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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