Pottery and economy in Old Kingdom Egypt /

Pottery and economy in Old Kingdom Egypt /

In Pottery and Economy in Old Kingdom Egypt , Leslie Anne Warden investigates the economic importance of utilitarian ceramics, particularly beer jars and bread moulds, in third millennium BC Egypt. The Egyptian economy at this period is frequently presented as state-centric or state-defined. This st...

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Main Author: Warden, Leslie Anne.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Series: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 65.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262416.

Subjects:

Pottery > Egypt > History.
Egypt > History > Early Dynastic Period, ca. 3100-ca. 2686 B.C.
Egypt > History > Old Kingdom, ca. 2686-ca. 2181 B.C.
Egypt > Politics and government > To 332 B.C.
Egypt > Antiquities.

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Call Number: GN433 .W37 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 Egyptian Economic History: Locating Power, Placing Agency
  • 2 Wages and Payers
  • 3 Archaeology, Pottery, and Economy
  • 4 Beer Jars, Standardization, and Economy
  • 5 Bread Moulds: An Independent Economic Unit?
  • 6 Microeconomic Systems: Ceramic Production
  • 7 Placing Royal Administration and State Revenue
  • 8 The State of the Egyptian Economy
  • 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.