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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... MORTUARY CULTS 5.1 . THE ORGANIZATION OF PHYLES AT ABU SIR The best known phyle organization of the Old Kingdom is that of the priesthoods of royal mortuary temples during the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties . The general outline of this ...
... MORTUARY CULTS 5.1 . THE ORGANIZATION OF PHYLES AT ABU SIR The best known phyle organization of the Old Kingdom is that of the priesthoods of royal mortuary temples during the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties . The general outline of this ...
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... MORTUARY TEMPLES One of the most puzzling references in the papyri from the cult of Neferirkare is to the jmj - nfrt phyle of Mnw - nfr , which seems to be one of the phyles that served in the royal temple , since it is listed as having ...
... MORTUARY TEMPLES One of the most puzzling references in the papyri from the cult of Neferirkare is to the jmj - nfrt phyle of Mnw - nfr , which seems to be one of the phyles that served in the royal temple , since it is listed as having ...
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... temple . In one such group , in the mortuary temple of Niuserre , a fragment of a phyle name wr was found that originally must have labeled one of the doorways.52 Another storeroom , in the temple of Neferirkare , has two texts in red ...
... temple . In one such group , in the mortuary temple of Niuserre , a fragment of a phyle name wr was found that originally must have labeled one of the doorways.52 Another storeroom , in the temple of Neferirkare , has two texts in red ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE NAMES OF THE PHYLES | 9 |
PHYLES AND SHIPS WATCHES | 41 |
Copyright | |
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