. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . umenti civili, pi. exxiv. b). * This is evident from a passage in the Sallier Papyrus n I, quoted above, in which we seethe taxpayer in fetters, dragged out to clean the canals, his whole family, wife and children, accom-panying him in bonds. 3 Herodotus, ii. 109, who attributes the establishment of this regulation to the inevitable,legendary Sesostris. THE BASTINADO. 333 What the collection of the taxes had begun was almost always brought to aclimax by the corvées. However numerous the royal and seignorial slaves mighthave been, they were insuf
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . umenti civili, pi. exxiv. b). * This is evident from a passage in the Sallier Papyrus n I, quoted above, in which we seethe taxpayer in fetters, dragged out to clean the canals, his whole family, wife and children, accom-panying him in bonds. 3 Herodotus, ii. 109, who attributes the establishment of this regulation to the inevitable,legendary Sesostris. THE BASTINADO. 333 What the collection of the taxes had begun was almost always brought to aclimax by the corvées. However numerous the royal and seignorial slaves mighthave been, they were insufficient for the cultivation of all the lands of the domains,and a part of Egypt must always have lain fallow, had not the number of workersbeen augmented by the addition of those who were in the position of excess of cultivable land was subdivided into portions of equal dimensions,which were distributed among the inhabitants of neighbouring villages by theofficers of a regent nominated for that Those dispensed from agri-. LEVYING THE TAX: THE cultural service were—the destitute, soldiers on service and their families, certainemployés of the public works, and servitors of the temple;3 all other country-folkwithout exception had to submit to it, and one or more portions were allotted toeach, according to his Orders issued at fixed periods called themtogether, themselves, their servants and their beasts of burden, to dig, sow, keepwatch in the fields while the harvest was proceeding, to cut and to carry the crops,the whole work being done at their own expense and to the detriment of theirown As a sort of indemnity, a few allotments were left uncultivated 1 These lots arc the aiiûît, so often mentioned in the texts, and the persons requisitioned towork thern are the ahûîtiû, a name applied by extension to non-proprietary farmers. Theregents—hiqû ahûîtiû—are frequently referred to on the monuments of the
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