Towards a new history for the Egyptian Old Kingdom : : perspectives on the pyramid age / / edited by Peter Der Manuelian and Thomas Schneider.
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 the Jou...
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| Superior document: | Harvard Egyptological Studies, Volume 1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard Egyptological studies ;
Volume 1. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (537 p.) |
| 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." |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.