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 seems to have been written with more than one sign : a wr sign follows it in texts # 3 and # 7 of the ink inscriptions on the blocks of G VI S at Giza ( see fig . 2.2 above ) .52 The name in these texts is probably to be ...
... phyle seems to have been written with more than one sign : a wr sign follows it in texts # 3 and # 7 of the ink inscriptions on the blocks of G VI S at Giza ( see fig . 2.2 above ) .52 The name in these texts is probably to be ...
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... sign to its left . The designation st phyle follows . Emery emended this sign to wr and attempted to read the group as an independent title ; but , as Kaplony pointed out , 61 the sign is certainly Ħ . D : 9.62 This inscription is on a ...
... sign to its left . The designation st phyle follows . Emery emended this sign to wr and attempted to read the group as an independent title ; but , as Kaplony pointed out , 61 the sign is certainly Ħ . D : 9.62 This inscription is on a ...
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... sign is discussed in the next chapter in connection with the origins of the phyles . 8.2.12 . Category K This ... Phyle ( ? ) , " which he saw as a counterpart to the " Residenzphyle . " 187 This hypothetical reading is completely ...
... sign is discussed in the next chapter in connection with the origins of the phyles . 8.2.12 . Category K This ... Phyle ( ? ) , " which he saw as a counterpart to the " Residenzphyle . " 187 This hypothetical reading is completely ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE NAMES OF THE PHYLES | 9 |
PHYLES AND SHIPS WATCHES | 41 |
Copyright | |
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