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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... fact the reverse is true ; and it required that the name of the st phyle be read t3 - wr , when in fact it is clearly distinguished graphically from the nautical term . The two terms that do support this interpretation , w3dt and nds ...
... fact the reverse is true ; and it required that the name of the st phyle be read t3 - wr , when in fact it is clearly distinguished graphically from the nautical term . The two terms that do support this interpretation , w3dt and nds ...
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... fact that two phyles of the same crew seem to be working at once and in fact seem to share the responsibility for 38. This mastaba is called Mastaba VII by Junker ; the designation G VI S is that of Reisner and was adopted by Porter and ...
... fact that two phyles of the same crew seem to be working at once and in fact seem to share the responsibility for 38. This mastaba is called Mastaba VII by Junker ; the designation G VI S is that of Reisner and was adopted by Porter and ...
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... fact that their function is not entirely clear . They seem in some way to record the progress of the work . Edel , in his discussion of these texts , concluded that they belonged to only two phyles : the wr / jmj - wrt phyle and the jmj ...
... fact that their function is not entirely clear . They seem in some way to record the progress of the work . Edel , in his discussion of these texts , concluded that they belonged to only two phyles : the wr / jmj - wrt phyle and the jmj ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE NAMES OF THE PHYLES | 9 |
PHYLES AND SHIPS WATCHES | 41 |
Copyright | |
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