Description: This volume examines lending practices in Egypt during the Ptolemaic period (332-30 BCE), especially, but not exclusively, through the lens of the demotic loan-account papyri of Panas, son of Espmetis.
Brief description: Brian P. Muhs is associate professor of Egyptology at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago. Lending in Ptolemaic Egypt is Prof. Muhs's fourth book on Egyptian social, economic, and legal institutions in the Ptolemaic period.