The Production and Use of Vegetable Oils in Ptolemaic Egypt (Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, Supplements, No 6) (Bulletin of the American ... Society of Papyrologists, Supplements, No 6)

How vegetable oils, a dietary staple, were produced and used in Ptolemaic Egypt is considered in this volume. The Ptolemaic revenue laws and the Zenon archive provide a substantial amount of the information, and this is supplemented with literary sources and studies of oil production in premodern societies.