الحرائق في مصر خلال العصرين البطلمي و الروماني في ضوء الوثائق البردية

Abstract EN

During the Ptolemaic and Roman eras, many fires occurred in Egypt, either unintentionally or by prior arrangement by the actor.

Most of these fires had devastating effects and resulted in many losses of public and private property.

This paper discusses these fires in the light of papyri to find out their causes, where they occurred, when they were most frequent, and how society and administration dealt with them.

It also studies the legal procedures related to fires, from providing notification to punishing those who caused them.