Towards a new history for the Egyptian Old Kingdom : perspectives on the pyramid age /
The Pyramid Age represents the first of several highpoints in ancient Egypt's long history. But critical questions remain about the period, its social structure and economic organization, and the long-term implications of its artistic achievements. On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of th...
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Language: English
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Boston :
Brill.
c2015.
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Harvard Egyptological Studies
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Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287389.
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Call Number: DT85 .T69 2015
- Preliminary Material
- 1 Ancient Egyptian History as an Example of Punctuated Equilibrium: An Outline /
- Miroslav Bárta
- 2 Economic Implications of the Menkaure Triads /
- Florence Dunn Friedman
- 3 Did the Old Kingdom Collapse? A New View of the First Intermediate Period /
- John Gee
- 4 The Chronology of the Third and Fourth Dynasties according to Manetho's Aegyptiaca /
- Roman Gundacker
- 5 The Entextualization of the Pyramid Texts and the Religious History of the Old Kingdom /
- Harold M. Hays†
- 6 Shareholders: The Menkaure Valley Temple Occupation in Context /
- Mark Lehner
- 7 Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition Contributions to Old Kingdom History at Giza: Some Rights and Wrongs /
- Peter Der Manuelian
- 8 Cattle, Kings and Priests: Phyle Rotations and Old Kingdom Civil Dates /
- John S. Nolan
- 9 The Sed-Festival of Niuserra and the Fifth Dynasty Sun Temples /
- Massimiliano Nuzzolo
- 10 The State of Egypt in the Eighth Dynasty /
- Hratch Papazian
- 11 The Old Kingdom Abroad: An Epistemological Perspective /
- Thomas Schneider
- 12 The Dawn of Osiris and the Dusk of the Sun-Temples: Religious History at the End of the Fifth Dynasty /
- Racheli Shalomi-Hen
- 13 Centralized Taxation during the Old Kingdom /
- Leslie Anne Warden
- Index.