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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... large tomb in the cemetery south of the Great Pyramid ( see fig . 2.2 . ) . 1 The texts were written in red ink on ... number between a year sign and the month sign , which the spacing here would not allow . The reading nds creates a ...
... large tomb in the cemetery south of the Great Pyramid ( see fig . 2.2 . ) . 1 The texts were written in red ink on ... number between a year sign and the month sign , which the spacing here would not allow . The reading nds creates a ...
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... large , they seem to have been undecorated , or at least no decoration was recorded . The arrangement of the rooms is reminiscent of the storerooms in the mastaba of Mrrw - k3 . 22 It seems likely that they were storerooms , and their ...
... large , they seem to have been undecorated , or at least no decoration was recorded . The arrangement of the rooms is reminiscent of the storerooms in the mastaba of Mrrw - k3 . 22 It seems likely that they were storerooms , and their ...
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... numbers are written with horizontal strokes as well as vertical strokes , probably simply to separate them from one another . The text runs in four vertical columns , the leftmost of which seems to be split at the top . 6 6 ... ( large ...
... numbers are written with horizontal strokes as well as vertical strokes , probably simply to separate them from one another . The text runs in four vertical columns , the leftmost of which seems to be split at the top . 6 6 ... ( large ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE NAMES OF THE PHYLES | 9 |
PHYLES AND SHIPS WATCHES | 41 |
Copyright | |
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