Towards a new history for the Egyptian Old Kingdom : perspectives on the pyramid age /

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Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Description:vi, 529 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Harvard Egyptological studies ; volume 1
Harvard Egyptological studies ; v. 1.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10398325
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Other authors / contributors:Der Manuelian, Peter, editor.
Schneider, Thomas, 1964- editor.
ISBN:9789004301887
9004301887
9789004301894
9004301895
Notes:"In this first volume of the Harvard Egyptological Studies we publish the proceedings of an International Symposium held at Harvard University on April 26th, 2012"--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Editor's Introduction
  • Preface
  • 1. Ancient Egyptian History as an Example of Punctuated Equilibrium: An Outline
  • 2. Economic Implications of the Menkaure Triads
  • 3. Did the Old Kingdom Collapse? A New View of the First Intermediate Period
  • 4. The Chronology of the Third and Fourth Dynasties according to Manetho's Aegyptiaca
  • 5. The Entextualization of the Pyramid Texts and the Religious History of the Old Kingdom
  • 6. Shareholders: The Menkaure Valley Temple Occupation in Context
  • 7. Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition Contributions to Old Kingdom History at Giza: Some Rights and Wrongs
  • 8. Cattle, Kings and Priests: Phyle Rotations and Old Kingdom Civil Dates
  • 9. The Serf-Festival of Niuserra and the Fifth Dynasty Sun Temples
  • 10. The State of Egypt in the Eighth Dynasty
  • 11. The Old Kingdom Abroad: An Epistemological Perspective With Remarks on the Biography of Iny and the Kingdom of Dugurasu
  • 12. The Dawn of Osiris and the Dusk of the Sun-Temples: Religious History at the End of the Fifth Dynasty
  • 13. Centralized Taxation during the Old Kingdom
  • Index