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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... phyle division served in the temple for one month at a time , in rotation with the other divisions on a ten - month cycle . A phyle division at the mortuary temple of Neferirkare seems to have contained about twenty people.4 Posener ...
... phyle division served in the temple for one month at a time , in rotation with the other divisions on a ten - month cycle . A phyle division at the mortuary temple of Neferirkare seems to have contained about twenty people.4 Posener ...
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... 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 ink on the underside of a lintel , reading ; 53 a phyle division of this name is ...
... 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 ink on the underside of a lintel , reading ; 53 a phyle division of this name is ...
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... phyle divisions rotated in their standard phyle order , either in a five - month cycle with both divisions of a phyle serving at the same time or in a ten - month cycle that passed through the phyle order twice . These theoretical ...
... phyle divisions rotated in their standard phyle order , either in a five - month cycle with both divisions of a phyle serving at the same time or in a ten - month cycle that passed through the phyle order twice . These theoretical ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE NAMES OF THE PHYLES | 9 |
PHYLES AND SHIPS WATCHES | 41 |
Copyright | |
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