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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... reference . This text contains two references to phyles and quite probably had a third reference , which is now lost . All the references involve the distribution of shares of the endowment's profits , usually in cases where a phyle ...
... reference . This text contains two references to phyles and quite probably had a third reference , which is now lost . All the references involve the distribution of shares of the endowment's profits , usually in cases where a phyle ...
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... references to phyles . In some ways , the Archaic period references to phyles are more informative than the later references because they are more diverse . The corpus of texts discussed above indicates that phyles were active in ...
... references to phyles . In some ways , the Archaic period references to phyles are more informative than the later references because they are more diverse . The corpus of texts discussed above indicates that phyles were active in ...
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... phyles in and out of service during this period , or indeed until the Fourth Dynasty . Not all of the earliest phyles have survived into the Old Kingdom . We have two references to a hn phyle from the reign of Qa'a and also three ...
... phyles in and out of service during this period , or indeed until the Fourth Dynasty . Not all of the earliest phyles have survived into the Old Kingdom . We have two references to a hn phyle from the reign of Qa'a and also three ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE NAMES OF THE PHYLES | 9 |
PHYLES AND SHIPS WATCHES | 41 |
Copyright | |
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