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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... Fourth Dynasty , while the " later " w3dt and nds phyles are known by the beginning of the Third Dynasty . 83 The other instance that Kaplony gave of the alleged doubled w3dt phyle is a writing with two ts ( fig . 2.9 ) .84 Kaplony read ...
... Fourth Dynasty , while the " later " w3dt and nds phyles are known by the beginning of the Third Dynasty . 83 The other instance that Kaplony gave of the alleged doubled w3dt phyle is a writing with two ts ( fig . 2.9 ) .84 Kaplony read ...
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... Fourth Dynasty stone bowl inscriptions with which to compare it makes evaluation difficult . This form of the group could be a legitimate development from the earlier versions , unknown merely because of uneven excavation , or it could ...
... Fourth Dynasty stone bowl inscriptions with which to compare it makes evaluation difficult . This form of the group could be a legitimate development from the earlier versions , unknown merely because of uneven excavation , or it could ...
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... Fourth Dynasty . Not all of the earliest phyles have survived into the Old Kingdom . We have two references to a hn phyle from the reign of Qa'a and also three references to what may be a k3 phyle in the reign of Den ( though this ...
... Fourth Dynasty . Not all of the earliest phyles have survived into the Old Kingdom . We have two references to a hn phyle from the reign of Qa'a and also three references to what may be a k3 phyle in the reign of Den ( though this ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE NAMES OF THE PHYLES | 9 |
PHYLES AND SHIPS WATCHES | 41 |
Copyright | |
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