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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... division would have been assigned one massive block of each segment of wall , and was probably responsible for at ... division mark of some royal ( or private ? ) phyle or may indicate some alternative system of organization . Since each ...
... division would have been assigned one massive block of each segment of wall , and was probably responsible for at ... division mark of some royal ( or private ? ) phyle or may indicate some alternative system of organization . Since each ...
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... division names are omitted . ) Tablet A states that the U division of the nds phyle was beginning its first month of service on the project , so there is no previous work to be recorded . Six months later , the division of the jmj ...
... division names are omitted . ) Tablet A states that the U division of the nds phyle was beginning its first month of service on the project , so there is no previous work to be recorded . Six months later , the division of the jmj ...
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... division would be inscribed is lost . In D : 7 , however , it occurs with the second division of the nds phyle , but it is just above a break and may have been supplemented with another sign or signs . This difference might be taken as ...
... division would be inscribed is lost . In D : 7 , however , it occurs with the second division of the nds phyle , but it is just above a break and may have been supplemented with another sign or signs . This difference might be taken as ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE NAMES OF THE PHYLES | 9 |
PHYLES AND SHIPS WATCHES | 41 |
Copyright | |
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