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 Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015] |
| Description | vi, 529 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Harvard 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015020779 |
| ISBN | 9789004301887 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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