Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (project FARE) at CNRS researching the genealogy of the Ptolemaic fiscal system, with a particular focus on the impact of Achaemenid practices.
I am an ancient historian with a broad interest in the documentary sources of the Ancient World, especially those pertaining to Egypt, as well as in the potential of newly developed digital tools.
Research interests include onomastics, epistolography, the application of network analysis to the sources of the ancient world, food history, and above all the socio-economic history of Achaemenid, Hellenistic, and Roman Egypt.
Past: Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University
Junior Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Researcher for the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (University of Oxford)
PhD project: 'Ptolemaic State Monopolies: Predation or Prosperity?' (KU Leuven)
I am an ancient historian with a broad interest in the documentary sources of the Ancient World, especially those pertaining to Egypt, as well as in the potential of newly developed digital tools.
Research interests include onomastics, epistolography, the application of network analysis to the sources of the ancient world, food history, and above all the socio-economic history of Achaemenid, Hellenistic, and Roman Egypt.
Past: Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University
Junior Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Researcher for the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (University of Oxford)
PhD project: 'Ptolemaic State Monopolies: Predation or Prosperity?' (KU Leuven)
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Articles by Nico Dogaer
Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 2023
This article proposes a new interpretation of the Ptolemaic wool tax, one of the best documented capitation taxes. The integration of Greek and Demotic sources makes clear that the women liable to this tax were involved in part-time spinning. This reinterpretation considerably enlarges our dataset for spinning, a crucial yet underrepresented stage in the manufacture of textiles. The article discusses the available evidence for spinning, the nature of the wool tax, and the implications for the organisation of the Ptolemaic textile industry and the role women played in it.
The historiography of fiscality in Ptolemaic Egypt is dominated by questions of state control, centralisation, dirigisme, and economic planning, often expressed in terms of the ‘royal economy’. The idea of such a strictly supervised state economy is rooted in the still fundamental syntheses of the 1930s and 1940s. In the meantime, both the publication of new documents and the adoption of new theoretical frameworks have led scholars to challenge this concept. In this paper, the history of the dirigiste views and the recent developments eroding them are traced. Two core areas are singled out and treated in more detail: land tenure and taxation, and the so-called ‘royal monopolies’. In addition, some reflections are offered on the concept of the ‘royal economy’ itself, suggesting that there may be more useful ways to approach the Ptolemaic fiscal system.
With M. Depauw.
This article explores the corpus of Greek hybrid onomastic derivations attested in Graeco-Roman Egypt. These linguistically ‘mixed’ names, e.g. Anoubion or Besodoros, provide valuable insights into the nature of cross-cultural contacts and the formation of identity in Graeco-Roman Egypt. Theophoric derivations in particular allow us to corroborate earlier assumptions about the practice of religious assimilation in personal names.
Book chapters by Nico Dogaer
In: Fiscalités antiques. Aux origines de l’administration provinciale romaine (2023)
In: Greek, Demotic and Coptic Papyri and Ostraca in the Leiden Papyrological Institute (2023)
With. K. Vandorpe. In: Text Editions of (Abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic, Greek, Latin and Coptic Papyri and Ostraca. Some people love their friends even when they are far away: Festschrift in Honour of Francisca A.J. Hoogendijk (2020)
Selected talks by Nico Dogaer
Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 2023
This article proposes a new interpretation of the Ptolemaic wool tax, one of the best documented capitation taxes. The integration of Greek and Demotic sources makes clear that the women liable to this tax were involved in part-time spinning. This reinterpretation considerably enlarges our dataset for spinning, a crucial yet underrepresented stage in the manufacture of textiles. The article discusses the available evidence for spinning, the nature of the wool tax, and the implications for the organisation of the Ptolemaic textile industry and the role women played in it.
The historiography of fiscality in Ptolemaic Egypt is dominated by questions of state control, centralisation, dirigisme, and economic planning, often expressed in terms of the ‘royal economy’. The idea of such a strictly supervised state economy is rooted in the still fundamental syntheses of the 1930s and 1940s. In the meantime, both the publication of new documents and the adoption of new theoretical frameworks have led scholars to challenge this concept. In this paper, the history of the dirigiste views and the recent developments eroding them are traced. Two core areas are singled out and treated in more detail: land tenure and taxation, and the so-called ‘royal monopolies’. In addition, some reflections are offered on the concept of the ‘royal economy’ itself, suggesting that there may be more useful ways to approach the Ptolemaic fiscal system.
With M. Depauw.
This article explores the corpus of Greek hybrid onomastic derivations attested in Graeco-Roman Egypt. These linguistically ‘mixed’ names, e.g. Anoubion or Besodoros, provide valuable insights into the nature of cross-cultural contacts and the formation of identity in Graeco-Roman Egypt. Theophoric derivations in particular allow us to corroborate earlier assumptions about the practice of religious assimilation in personal names.
In: Fiscalités antiques. Aux origines de l’administration provinciale romaine (2023)
In: Greek, Demotic and Coptic Papyri and Ostraca in the Leiden Papyrological Institute (2023)
With. K. Vandorpe. In: Text Editions of (Abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic, Greek, Latin and Coptic Papyri and Ostraca. Some people love their friends even when they are far away: Festschrift in Honour of Francisca A.J. Hoogendijk (2020)
BrIAS Workshop W08 Long term perspectives on Foodways & Agriculture in North East Africa. On April 5 and 6 2022 both days from 13.00 to 17.00 Central European Time