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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... w3dt phyle should have such a variant writing unless the use of this form is somehow connected with the fact that w3dt is the only one of the names that is normally feminine in gender . Kaplony suggested that there were three phases ...
... w3dt phyle should have such a variant writing unless the use of this form is somehow connected with the fact that w3dt is the only one of the names that is normally feminine in gender . Kaplony suggested that there were three phases ...
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... w3dt is feminine . In its earliest occurrences w3dt is written w3dtjw , which is probably a nisbe adjective , " belonging to the Green One , " and suggests an explanation for the other names as well . They may refer to the attributes of ...
... w3dt is feminine . In its earliest occurrences w3dt is written w3dtjw , which is probably a nisbe adjective , " belonging to the Green One , " and suggests an explanation for the other names as well . They may refer to the attributes of ...
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... w3dt phyle and variants . See Index II : phyles , named w3dt ( nautical term ) , 39 , 46-48 , 50-51 , 53 w3dt ( " green " ) , 175 wj3 n Jmn , 45 wj3 zš n z3 , 43 w'b , 74 , 82-84 w'b 200 , 83 w'b Wsrk3f , 93 w'b Mn - jswt - Njwsrr , 99 ...
... w3dt phyle and variants . See Index II : phyles , named w3dt ( nautical term ) , 39 , 46-48 , 50-51 , 53 w3dt ( " green " ) , 175 wj3 n Jmn , 45 wj3 zš n z3 , 43 w'b , 74 , 82-84 w'b 200 , 83 w'b Wsrk3f , 93 w'b Mn - jswt - Njwsrr , 99 ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE NAMES OF THE PHYLES | 9 |
PHYLES AND SHIPS WATCHES | 41 |
Copyright | |
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