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Towards a new history for the Egyptian Old Kingdom : perspectives on the pyramid age / edited by Peter Der Manuelian and Thomas Schneider.

Contributor(s): Der Manuelian, Peter | Schneider, Thomas, 1964-
Series: : volume 1.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015] ©2015Description: vi, 529 pages : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789004301887ISSN: 2352-7501Subject(s): Egypt -- History -- Old Kingdom, ca. 2686-ca. 2181 B.C. -- Congresses | Egypt -- Politics and government -- To 332 B.C. -- Congresses | Egypt -- Antiquities -- CongressesDDC classification: 932.012
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.

"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.

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.

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