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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... period preceding it , must have seen the slow evolution and development of many of the classical Egyptian institutions from the comparatively primitive social organization of predynastic society , a development parallel to that seen in ...
... period preceding it , must have seen the slow evolution and development of many of the classical Egyptian institutions from the comparatively primitive social organization of predynastic society , a development parallel to that seen in ...
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... period can also be seen in their architecture , since a complex of five storerooms becomes popular in which the rooms are sometimes explicitly labeled with phyle names . Finally , the titularies of Old Kingdom officials who held ...
... period can also be seen in their architecture , since a complex of five storerooms becomes popular in which the rooms are sometimes explicitly labeled with phyle names . Finally , the titularies of Old Kingdom officials who held ...
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... Period and the First Dynasty There is no evidence in the predynastic period for phyles as we know them ; however , some of the motifs used in the art of the period suggest the existence of clans identified with totemic emblems . The ...
... Period and the First Dynasty There is no evidence in the predynastic period for phyles as we know them ; however , some of the motifs used in the art of the period suggest the existence of clans identified with totemic emblems . The ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE NAMES OF THE PHYLES | 9 |
PHYLES AND SHIPS WATCHES | 41 |
Copyright | |
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