# Standard Hellenistic accounts print Egyptian grain as a fiscal machine toward Mediterranean power Date: 1920 ## The fact Met, BM, and Cambridge Hellenistic essays print Ptolemaic grain and tax as extraction from fellahin toward court and, later, Rome. The dated carrier is that modern scholarly-museum cluster. Inequality path: river labour funds dynastic coins. ## Context She inherited the machine; she used it in Roman wars as later told. Medium confidence on unique coefficients. [Cleopatra](/people/cleopatra) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute. ## Evidence and sources Official museum, UNESCO, or edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument. Official or archival record: Met Heilbrunn — Ptolemaic Egypt (https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ptol/hd_ptol.htm; Metropolitan Museum of Art). ## Significance Printed grain-extraction is an inequality path, not a 40 BCE harvest microdata file. Printed grain-extraction is an inequality path, not a 40 BCE harvest microdata file. ## What is established and what is not Established as a dated public record of this instrument. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. ## People - Cleopatra: https://factrail.ai/people/cleopatra ## Drivers - Income Inequality: https://factrail.ai/drivers/income-inequality ## Sources - https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol0521828791 - https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ptol/hd_ptol.htm ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cl-grain-extraction-rome