A new text on papyrus contains a royal ordinance of Cleopatra fromFebruary 33 in which she exempts the right-hand man of Mark Antony,Publius Canidius Crassus, from taxes on his land in Egypt and, up to acertain level, from import and export duties. The papyrus is the originaldisposition and contains the fiat of the queen written in her own hand.The text gives us a unique glimpse of the "foreign" policy of Cleopatrawhich was firmly grounded in Egyptian realities.
