Download or read book The Demography of Roman Egypt written by Roger S. Bagnall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-16 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By studying the three hundred census returns that survive on papyri from Roman Egypt, the authors reconstruct the patterns of mortality, marriage, fertility and migration that are likely to have prevailed in Roman Egypt.