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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... priesthood appear to have been organized according to phyle membership during this period.3 There is , however , evidence for ... priesthoods of the royal mortuary cults of the Fifth Dynasty , each of the five phyles was divided into two ...
... priesthood appear to have been organized according to phyle membership during this period.3 There is , however , evidence for ... priesthoods of the royal mortuary cults of the Fifth Dynasty , each of the five phyles was divided into two ...
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... priesthoods hold them in the cults of their fathers or grandfathers . Or there may have been a change in the position of women between the Fourth Dynasty , when many women with priesthoods in royal cults are attested , and the late ...
... priesthoods hold them in the cults of their fathers or grandfathers . Or there may have been a change in the position of women between the Fourth Dynasty , when many women with priesthoods in royal cults are attested , and the late ...
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... priesthood of this temple.54 Accordingly , each phyle division must have had its own storeroom in every royal ... priesthoods , with ten phyle divisions and a ten - month cycle of rotating service . These tablets probably date to ...
... priesthood of this temple.54 Accordingly , each phyle division must have had its own storeroom in every royal ... priesthoods , with ten phyle divisions and a ten - month cycle of rotating service . These tablets probably date to ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE NAMES OF THE PHYLES | 9 |
PHYLES AND SHIPS WATCHES | 41 |
Copyright | |
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