| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 529 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Harvard Egyptological studies ; volume 1 |
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Harvard Egyptological studies ; v. 1.
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| Contents |
Ancient Egyptian history as an example of punctuated equilibrium : an outline / Miroslav Barta -- Economic implications of the Menkaure triads / Florence Dunn Friedman -- Did the Old Kingdom collapse? A new view of the First Intermediate Period / John Gee -- The chronology of the Third and Fourth Dynasties according to Manetho's Aegyptiaca / Roman Gundacker -- The entextualization of the pyramid texts and the religious history of the Old Kingdom / Harold M. Hays -- Shareholders : the Menkaure Valley temple occupation in context / Mark Lehner -- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts expedition contributions to Old Kingdom history at Giza : some rights and wrongs / Peter Der Manuelian -- Cattle, kings and priests : Phyle rotations and Old Kingdom civil dates / John S. Nolan -- The Sed-Festival of Niuserra and the Fifth Dynasty sun temples / Massimiliano Nuzzolo -- The state of Egypt in the Eighth Dynasty / Hratch Papazian -- The Old Kingdom abroad : an epistemological perspective with remarks on the biography of Iny and the Kingdom of Dugurasu / Thomas Schneider -- The dawn of Osiris and the dusk of the sun-temples : religious history at the end of the Fifth Dynasty / Racheli Shalomi-Hen -- Centralized taxation during the Egyptian Old Kingdom / Leslie Anne Warden |
| Summary |
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 Journal of Egyptian History, The University of British Columbia, Harvard University, and Brill Academic Publishers, Boston, held a conference at Harvard University on April 26, 2012. A distinguished group of Egyptological scholars from around the world gathered to consider new perspectives on the Pyramid Age; the results are presented here |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Egypt.
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Antiquities
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Egypt -- History -- Old Kingdom, ca. 2686-ca. 2181 B.C. -- Congresses
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Egypt -- Politics and government -- To 332 B.C. -- Congresses
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Egypt -- Antiquities -- Congresses
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| Subject |
Egypt
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| Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Der Manuelian, Peter, editor.
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Schneider, Thomas, 1964- editor.
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| LC no. |
2015020779 |
| ISBN |
9789004301894 |
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9004301895 |
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