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Taxing freedom in Thessalian manumission inscriptions

Title
Taxing freedom in Thessalian manumission inscriptions / by Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz.
Author
Zelnick-Abramovitz, Rachel
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

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Description
xiv, 176 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
Summary
In Taxing Freedom Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz examines manumission inscriptions from Hellenistic and Roman Thessaly, which record payments made to the poleis by manumitted slaves. In this original study the author explores the purpose of and the motivation behind these payments, apparently exacted as a federal impost, and places them in a wider historical and economic context. Based on a close examination of the epigraphic and literary evidence, Taxing Freedom offers important insights into the nature and extent of slavery and manumission in Hellenistic and Roman Thessaly, the Thessalian fiscal machinery, and the ways by which Thessalian poleis intervened in the economic life of their citizens to secure revenues. -- Publisher website.
Series Statement
Mnemosyne. Supplements ; volume 361
Uniform Title
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; v. 361.
Subject
  • Taxation > Greece > Thessaly
  • Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Greece > Thessaly
  • Inscriptions, Greek > Greece > Thessaly
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Taxation and slavery -- The Thessalian manumission inscriptions -- Manumission tax or publication fee? -- The evidence from other places -- The historical and economic background.
Call Number
JFE 16-3304
ISBN
  • 9789004253896
  • 9004253890
  • 9789004256620 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2013024126
OCLC
849641690
Author
Zelnick-Abramovitz, Rachel, author.
Title
Taxing freedom in Thessalian manumission inscriptions / by Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz.
Publisher
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Mnemosyne. Supplements ; volume 361
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; v. 361.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Form:
9789004256620
(GyWOH)har135021896
Research Call Number
JFE 16-3304
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