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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... tablets A and C and the wr bird on tablet D. In light of the arguments of Helck and Posener - Kriéger cited above , the phyle name should be read nds in tablets A and C , and wr only on tablet D , as they concluded . Tablet B is lost ...
... tablets A and C and the wr bird on tablet D. In light of the arguments of Helck and Posener - Kriéger cited above , the phyle name should be read nds in tablets A and C , and wr only on tablet D , as they concluded . Tablet B is lost ...
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... tablets have at least one division specified . None of the other tablets mention more than one phyle . And each of the other tablets gives a compass direction : north in tablets A and C and south in tablet D.13 If the signs in line 2 to ...
... tablets have at least one division specified . None of the other tablets mention more than one phyle . And each of the other tablets gives a compass direction : north in tablets A and C and south in tablet D.13 If the signs in line 2 to ...
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... tablet provides , namely the notation that it represents the beginning of the work . The -number would then have indicated some measure of the quantity of work completed at the beginning of a period of service . Perhaps these tablets ...
... tablet provides , namely the notation that it represents the beginning of the work . The -number would then have indicated some measure of the quantity of work completed at the beginning of a period of service . Perhaps these tablets ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE NAMES OF THE PHYLES | 9 |
PHYLES AND SHIPS WATCHES | 41 |
Copyright | |
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