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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... chambers is an interesting foreshadowing of later developments . In each chamber , the blocks of the north side are marked with one gang name and those of the south 24. Petrie , Meydum and Memphis ( III ) , pl . 5. Numbers 10 through 14 ...
... chambers is an interesting foreshadowing of later developments . In each chamber , the blocks of the north side are marked with one gang name and those of the south 24. Petrie , Meydum and Memphis ( III ) , pl . 5. Numbers 10 through 14 ...
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... Chamber is actually situated completely in the southern half of the pyramid , so that the gang assigned to the south might logically have been assigned the entire King's Chamber . However , this chamber was apparently considered to have ...
... Chamber is actually situated completely in the southern half of the pyramid , so that the gang assigned to the south might logically have been assigned the entire King's Chamber . However , this chamber was apparently considered to have ...
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... chamber . Another factor to consider in this identification is that the hwt is so frequently associated in the texts of Category D with a title referring to the pr- nswt , " the king's house , " and which would normally be taken to be ...
... chamber . Another factor to consider in this identification is that the hwt is so frequently associated in the texts of Category D with a title referring to the pr- nswt , " the king's house , " and which would normally be taken to be ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE NAMES OF THE PHYLES | 9 |
PHYLES AND SHIPS WATCHES | 41 |
Copyright | |
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