A Sixth-Century Tax Register from the Hermopolite Nome

Bagnall (classics, New York U.), Keenan (Loyola U. Chicago), and Leslie S.B. MacCoull (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) edit and publish a codex from the British Library that is from Hermopolite Nome, along with Aphrodito the most prolific source of documentary codices. It lists the tax obligations of people in the nearby village of Temseu Skordon. The introduction discusses such matters as paleography, the nature of the document and an analysis of its entries, taxation, occupations, and the church. The text is presented on facing pages of Greek and English. The indexes are by Greek and Coptic terms. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)