PAPIRUSOWE ŚWIADECTWA DOPROWADZANIA WODY PRZEZ CUDZY TEREN W EGIPCIE PTOLEMEJSKO-RZYMSKIM

Aneta Skalec

doi:10.21697/zp.2018.18.3.01

Published: 2018-11-16

Vol. 18 No. 3 (2018)

Papyrological Evidence of Water Supply across another Proprietor’s Land in Graeco-Roman Egypt

Aneta Skalec

Zeszyty Prawnicze

Section: Artykuły

https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2018.18.3.01

Abstract

The supply of water across another proprietor’s land is necessary wherever not all users have the same access to water. In Egypt, where virtually all the land was irrigated by the Nile’s annual ﬂooding, the ﬂoodwater was distributed through an elaborate irrigation system of ﬂoodplains, so water access was a marginal problem. There are only a few papyri extant with evidence of this phenomenon in Graeco-Roman Egypt, and they are the subject of this article. They clearly indicate that the need to bring water across someone else’s property was limited to land requiring irrigation all year round. This was observed for vineyards, which were irrigated by means of reservoirs and various types of hydraulic devices not located on each plot. Hence to bring water from them over neighbouring properties. This shows how the legal regulations on water were strictly connected with the hydrological conditions of a given area.

Keywords:

irrigation, vineyards, all-year irrigation, water supply across another proprietor’s land, papyri.

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Skalec, A. (2018). Papyrological Evidence of Water Supply across another Proprietor’s Land in Graeco-Roman Egypt. Zeszyty Prawnicze, 18(3), 5–24. https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2018.18.3.01

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