Egyptian Phyles in the Old Kingdom: The Evolution of a System of Social OrganizationOriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1991 - 243 pages Groups of part-time workers called phyles served in mortuary cults and work crews during the Old Kingdom in Egypt. This study clarifies their attributes and functioning in these and other institutions, based on the integration of textual and archaeological evidence from the Old Kingdom and the Archaic period preceding it. The arguments suggest that phyles originated in an upper Egyptian social organization dated to the predynastic period, and that they played a more important role than is generally realized in the stability of the early Egyptian state. |
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... Egypt after the beginning of the First Dynasty has been reconstructed principally on the basis of written sources . In recent years , anthropological methods have begun to be applied to later periods , but the history of pharaonic Egypt ...
... Egypt after the beginning of the First Dynasty has been reconstructed principally on the basis of written sources . In recent years , anthropological methods have begun to be applied to later periods , but the history of pharaonic Egypt ...
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... Egypt but instead would have belonged to a smaller population that came to dominate later Egyptian culture . This ... Egypt . The expressions " phyles of Upper Egypt , " " phyles of the nome , " and " phyles of Heliopolis , " discussed ...
... Egypt but instead would have belonged to a smaller population that came to dominate later Egyptian culture . This ... Egypt . The expressions " phyles of Upper Egypt , " " phyles of the nome , " and " phyles of Heliopolis , " discussed ...
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... Egypt implies that phyles were a purely Upper Egyptian institution and tends to confirm the suggestion that the phyles predate the unification of the two predynastic cultures.47 9.4.4 . The Fifth and Early Sixth Dynasties It is probably ...
... Egypt implies that phyles were a purely Upper Egyptian institution and tends to confirm the suggestion that the phyles predate the unification of the two predynastic cultures.47 9.4.4 . The Fifth and Early Sixth Dynasties It is probably ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE NAMES OF THE PHYLES | 9 |
PHYLES AND SHIPS WATCHES | 41 |
Copyright | |
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