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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... texts were written in red ink on most of the blocks on this face of the mastaba , in rough hieroglyphs rather than hieratic , and are badly worn . Two work gangs of Menkaure are mentioned , one of which was transcribed by Junker as AU ...
... texts were written in red ink on most of the blocks on this face of the mastaba , in rough hieroglyphs rather than hieratic , and are badly worn . Two work gangs of Menkaure are mentioned , one of which was transcribed by Junker as AU ...
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... texts are quite informative despite the fact that their function is not entirely clear . They seem in some way to record the progress of the work . Edel , in his discussion of these texts , concluded that they belonged to only two ...
... texts are quite informative despite the fact that their function is not entirely clear . They seem in some way to record the progress of the work . Edel , in his discussion of these texts , concluded that they belonged to only two ...
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... texts . Even if they were added at different times , they may have been perceived as serving the same purpose . The occurrence of falcons on standards in other texts that mention phyles ( F : 1 , F : 2 , F : 3 , and H : 1 ) also ...
... texts . Even if they were added at different times , they may have been perceived as serving the same purpose . The occurrence of falcons on standards in other texts that mention phyles ( F : 1 , F : 2 , F : 3 , and H : 1 ) also ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE NAMES OF THE PHYLES | 9 |
PHYLES AND SHIPS WATCHES | 41 |
Copyright | |
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