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New. Excellent New Book. This book is intended for the instructed general reader. Based on the author's studies of Greek documentary papyri during more than forty years, it begins with an account of the physical peculiarities of Egypt, the nature of papyrus, methods of preparing it, the chief discoveries of Greek papyri and the science of papyrology. In the other three chapters is given a summary review of the economic, administrative and social evolution of Egypt during the Greco-Roman period. It is a study of Hellenism in its Egyptian setting, of the unstable amalgam resulting from the blend of Greek and Roman influences, the gradual weakening of the Greek element, and the eventual submergence of Egypt in an Oriental culture, radically changed, however, by the mingling of Europe and Asia in the Hellenistic period. 168pp.