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 system began to be adopted by wealthy officials , the name of the priests of the starboard side may have been retained from the older system as a substitute for the name of the wr phyle , perhaps because the use of this ...
... phyle system began to be adopted by wealthy officials , the name of the priests of the starboard side may have been retained from the older system as a substitute for the name of the wr phyle , perhaps because the use of this ...
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... phyle name wr was found that originally must have labeled one of the doorways.52 Another storeroom , in the temple ... system in the reigns of Khafre and Menkaure , each of whom has a mortuary temple with a group of five storerooms . If the ...
... phyle name wr was found that originally must have labeled one of the doorways.52 Another storeroom , in the temple ... system in the reigns of Khafre and Menkaure , each of whom has a mortuary temple with a group of five storerooms . If the ...
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... phyle organizations but no viziers ' tombs . A likely explanation for this distribution is that the use of a phyle system in private cults was a passing fashion , which was begun in imitation of royal cults , was popular for a brief ...
... phyle organizations but no viziers ' tombs . A likely explanation for this distribution is that the use of a phyle system in private cults was a passing fashion , which was begun in imitation of royal cults , was popular for a brief ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE NAMES OF THE PHYLES | 9 |
PHYLES AND SHIPS WATCHES | 41 |
Copyright | |
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