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

Other author Der Manuelian, Peter.
Other author Schneider, Thomas, 1964-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Descriptionvi, 529 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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SeriesHarvard Egyptological studies ; volume 1
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.
General note"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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2015020779
ISBN9789004301887 (hardback : alk. paper)

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