Egyptian Phyles in the Old Kingdom: The Evolution of a System of Social OrganizationGroups 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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Scenes of nautical journeys that employ the terms jmj - wrt and t3 - wr seem to
occur in tomb chapels where a phyle system was in use . Both of the Old
Kingdom private tombs that had private boat burials41 are known to have
organized the ...
Scenes of nautical journeys that employ the terms jmj - wrt and t3 - wr seem to
occur in tomb chapels where a phyle system was in use . Both of the Old
Kingdom private tombs that had private boat burials41 are known to have
organized the ...
Page 154
CI standards is that they are some sort of royal title adopted by Mr - p - bj3 ,
perhaps an early masculine variant of the nbtj element that occurs in the names
of his successors . 45 There are also grounds , however , for relating the falcons
on ...
CI standards is that they are some sort of royal title adopted by Mr - p - bj3 ,
perhaps an early masculine variant of the nbtj element that occurs in the names
of his successors . 45 There are also grounds , however , for relating the falcons
on ...
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Kaplony also cited a number of seals in which a group of signs that bear some
resemblance to p - Hr - msn occurs in the ... other groups also occur in this
environment , 107 probably because the names of many different areas and
institutions ...
Kaplony also cited a number of seals in which a group of signs that bear some
resemblance to p - Hr - msn occurs in the ... other groups also occur in this
environment , 107 probably because the names of many different areas and
institutions ...
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| Title | Egyptian Phyles in the Old Kingdom: The Evolution of a System of Social Organization Issue 48 of Studies in ancient oriental civilization, ISSN 0081-7554 |
| Author | Ann Macy Roth |
| Contributor | University of Chicago. Oriental Institute |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1991 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 21 Aug 2008 |
| ISBN | 0918986680, 9780918986689 |
| Length | 243 pages |
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