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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... Horus msnj at Pe . " However , MA Horus is sometimes given the epithet msnj , “ harpooner , " and it is likely that Ḥzj - R ' was simply a priest of that form of the god Horus in Pe ( Buto ) . The title could also have been a compound ...
... Horus msnj at Pe . " However , MA Horus is sometimes given the epithet msnj , “ harpooner , " and it is likely that Ḥzj - R ' was simply a priest of that form of the god Horus in Pe ( Buto ) . The title could also have been a compound ...
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... Horus name as identifying the living king , and the nswt - bjtj name as the form used for a dead king , the reverse of the pattern found in these texts . However , as Emery pointed out in his discussion of the question , 116 the Horus ...
... Horus name as identifying the living king , and the nswt - bjtj name as the form used for a dead king , the reverse of the pattern found in these texts . However , as Emery pointed out in his discussion of the question , 116 the Horus ...
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... Horus name , which is associated with the ka of the king ( as can be seen in later depictions in which a king's ka walks behind him carrying his Horus name in a serekh ) , would be important in rituals and would tend to predominate in ...
... Horus name , which is associated with the ka of the king ( as can be seen in later depictions in which a king's ka walks behind him carrying his Horus name in a serekh ) , would be important in rituals and would tend to predominate in ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE NAMES OF THE PHYLES | 9 |
PHYLES AND SHIPS WATCHES | 41 |
Copyright | |
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