Pottery and economy in Old Kingdom Egypt /
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Call Number: DS41 .C85 v.65
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| 100 | 1 | |a Warden, Leslie Anne, |e author | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Pottery and economy in Old Kingdom Egypt / |c by Leslie Anne Warden. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Leiden ; |a Boston : |b Brill, |c 2014. | |
| 300 | |a xx, 321 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a Culture and History of the ancient Near East ; |v 65. | |
| 490 | 1 | |a CHANE ; |v 65. | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a •List of Tables •List of Figures and Charts •Abbreviations •Acknowledgements •1. Egyptian Economic History: Locating Power, Placing Agency •Employing Theory •The Durability of Redistribution •Keynesian Economics and Complex Economies •Patrimonialism: The Patrimonial Household Model and Complex Adaptive Systems •Patronage •Cohesion and Malleability •Spheres of Power •Moving Forward-Data and Frameworks •2. Wages and Payers •Wages and Payers •Government as Payer •Private Individuals as Payers •Wage Value and Accounting •Production of Wages: A View from Titles and Iconography •Iconographic Evidence •Conclusion •3. Archaeology, Pottery, and Economy •Archaeological Data, Distribution, and Production •Egyptian Archaeology and Economy: Case Studies •The Archaeology of Bread and Beer •Beer, Bread, and Ceramic Research •Valuing Beer Jars and Bread Moulds •Standardization Studies •Volumetric Studies •Ceramics and Microeconomic Systems: Craft Production •Agency through Ceramic Production •The Corpus •4. Beer Jars, Standardization, and Economy •Typology and Methodology •Measuring Standardization •Measuring Human Perception in the Archaeological Record •Beer Jars: Introduction to a Form •Description and Technical Features •Beer Jar Distribution •The Beer Jar Sample •Economic Analysis •Methodology •Means and Standard Deviations for Volume •The CV for Volume, Applied to Dynastic Corpora •Analysis of Corpora by Regnal Divisions •Analysis by Stylistic Subtypes •Conclusion •5. Bread Moulds: An Independent Economic Unit? •Bread Moulds: Introduction to a Form •Moulds and Mould Baked Bread •bd$$ Manufacture •bd$$ Distribution •The bd$$ Corpus •Challenges of Our Bread Mould Sample •Economic Analysis •Methodology •Means and Standard Deviations for Volume •Dynastic Corpora and the CV for Volume •CVs Above the 'Random' Value: Working within Typologies •CVs Above the 'Random' Value: Finding Outliers •Bread Moulds versus Beer Jars •Conclusion •6. Microeconomic Systems: Ceramic Production •Potters as Economic Agents •Potters as Specialists •Beer Jars and Bread Moulds as Evidence for Specialist Production •Beer Jars and Rim Values •bd$$ Moulds and Rim Values •Rim Measurements and Specialization •The Structure of Pottery Production •The Iconographic Record and Workshop Production •Scale of Production in the Tomb of Ptahshepses •The Relationship of the Ceramic Industry to Other Industries •Workshops within the Archaeological Record •Controlling Workshops •Controlling Production and Restricting Resources •Conclusion •7. Placing Royal Administration and State Revenue •Royal Administration and the Provinces •The Economic Powers of the State •State Finance •Royal Domains •Conclusion •8. The State of the Egyptian Economy •Old Kingdom Egypt and Economic Models •Informal and Self-Structured Economy •Monolithic Authority as a Bad Fit •Relationship of State and Private Enterprise •Bread, Beer, and Grain •The First Intermediate Period... and Beyond •Appendices •1. Sites and Corpora Used in This Study •2. Individual Beer Jar Volumes in Samples Where n≥15 •3. Individual Bread Mould Volumes in Samples Where n≥14 •Bibliography •Index | |
| 555 | |a Hadeer | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Pottery |z Egypt |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Egypt |x Antiquities. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Egypt |x History |y Early Dynastic Period, ca. 3100-ca. 2686 B.C. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Egypt |x History |y Old Kingdom, ca. 2686-ca. 2181 B.C. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Egypt |x Politics and government |y To 332 B.C. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Culture and History of the ancient Near East ; |v 65. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a CHANE ; |v 65. | |
| 901 | |a reviewed | ||
| 942 | |c BK |2 lcc | ||