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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... Kingdom . The most probable explanation for this exception is to assume that by the Eighteenth Dynasty , the names of the Old Kingdom phyles were thoroughly confused with the corresponding Old Kingdom names for the quadrants of boats ...
... Kingdom . The most probable explanation for this exception is to assume that by the Eighteenth Dynasty , the names of the Old Kingdom phyles were thoroughly confused with the corresponding Old Kingdom names for the quadrants of boats ...
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... Eighteenth Dynasty and later ( Erman and Grapow , Wörterbuch 1 : 114 , 18 ) ; and finally , if jrjt does represent a commodity , one would expect a preposition to indicate that the phrase is a title and not the commodity itself . 21 ...
... Eighteenth Dynasty and later ( Erman and Grapow , Wörterbuch 1 : 114 , 18 ) ; and finally , if jrjt does represent a commodity , one would expect a preposition to indicate that the phrase is a title and not the commodity itself . 21 ...
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... Kingdom is an archaizing reference from the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut , which dates from the Eighteenth Dynasty . In a scene where Thutmose I presents his daughter Hatshepsut as the next king , he is said to be seated on his throne ...
... Kingdom is an archaizing reference from the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut , which dates from the Eighteenth Dynasty . In a scene where Thutmose I presents his daughter Hatshepsut as the next king , he is said to be seated on his throne ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE NAMES OF THE PHYLES | 9 |
PHYLES AND SHIPS WATCHES | 41 |
Copyright | |
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