Economic aspects of houses and housing in Roman Egypt
The thesis consists of a general introduction and four chapters. Chapter I deals with the factors which influence the property market, such as: 1) reasons for selling or purchasing house property or building land, for enlarging or consolidating house property, other forms of acquisition of the property, 2) Factors which determine the price of house property (dimension, construction, building materials and labour costs, etc.). Chapter II is concerned with the prices of houses and building land. The documents are grouped by nome in chronological order. As far as the evidence allows, comparisons are between price levels in villages and cities, and between nomes. Chapter III surveys rented house property 1) houses, flats, rooms, 2) industrial and business premises. One particularly interesting problem is the abundance of antichretic loans (with the right of habitation in lieu of interest), which may be linked to the almost complete lack of contracts of rent in the first century of Roman rule. ii Chapter /V attempts a comparison between village houses in Roman Egypt and those in Modern Egypt. The conclusion: The building materials, the location, the dimension, the condition, construction, economic condition play
Gendy, Ibrahim Abs el Aziz
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Economic aspects of houses and housing in Roman Egypt. The thesis consists of a general introduction and four chapters. Chapter I deals with the factors which influence the property market, such as: 1) reasons for selling or purchasing house property or building land, for enlarging or consolidating house property, other forms of acquisition of the property, 2) Factors which determine the price of house property (dimension, construction, building materials and labour costs, etc.). Chapter II is concerned with the prices of houses and building land. The documents are grouped by nome in chronological order. As far as the evidence allows, comparisons are between price levels in villages and cities, and between nomes. Chapter III surveys rented house property 1) houses, flats, rooms, 2) industrial and business premises. One particularly interesting problem is the abundance of antichretic loans (with the right of habitation in lieu of interest), which may be linked to the almost complete lack of contracts of rent in the first century of Roman rule. ii Chapter /V attempts a comparison between village houses in Roman Egypt and those in Modern Egypt. The conclusion: The building materials, the location, the dimension, the condition, construction, economic condition play
economic aspect house housing roman_egypt consist general_introduction four_chapter deal factor_influence property market reason sell house property building land enlarge consolidate house property forms acquisition property factors determine price house property dimension construction building_material labour cost etc concern price house build land document group chronological_order far evidence allows comparison price level villages city iii survey rent house property house flat room industrial business premise particularly_interesting problem abundance loan right habitation interest may link almost_complete lack contract rent first_century roman_rule attempt comparison village house roman_egypt modern egypt conclusion building_material location dimension condition construction economic_condition play