ABSTRACT
The previous chapter focused upon tax matters, in terms of estimating, collecting, and storing taxation. At times tax was collected by town mayors, but in the main these tax tasks were undertaken by the scribes and administrators, all may be called in today's terminology ‘civil servants’. The remainder of this part of the book is concerned with accounting and order in other domains of the state, in which ordinary citizens were employed. Work in these domains, as indeed was the case with the tax domain, connects with notions of work and work organization, an issue that is considered briefly in the next section.
