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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... writing the name of the phyle . ) These examples are arranged in chronological order , insofar as it can be determined . A sign that cannot be distinguished from the st sign ( S 22 ) is used in all examples but that from the tomb of D'w ...
... writing the name of the phyle . ) These examples are arranged in chronological order , insofar as it can be determined . A sign that cannot be distinguished from the st sign ( S 22 ) is used in all examples but that from the tomb of D'w ...
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... 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 through which the w3dt phyle passed : an ...
... 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 through which the w3dt phyle passed : an ...
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... writing ; in all but one instance it is written with signs with well - established readings placed in the same configuration . No corresponding nautical term is attested , so the name of the phyle cannot have become confused with the ...
... writing ; in all but one instance it is written with signs with well - established readings placed in the same configuration . No corresponding nautical term is attested , so the name of the phyle cannot have become confused with the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE NAMES OF THE PHYLES | 9 |
PHYLES AND SHIPS WATCHES | 41 |
Copyright | |
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