Pottery and economy in Old Kingdom Egypt / / by Leslie Anne.
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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| Superior document: | Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; Volume 65 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, 2013. ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture and history of the ancient Near East ;
v. 65. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (341 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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.