Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 529 pages)
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:
9789004301894
Series Statement:
Harvard Egyptological studies 1
Content:
Preliminary Material -- 1 Ancient Egyptian History as an Example of Punctuated Equilibrium: An Outline /Miroslav Bárta -- 2 Economic Implications of the Menkaure Triads /Florence Dunn Friedman -- 3 Did the Old Kingdom Collapse? A New View of the First Intermediate Period /John Gee -- 4 The Chronology of the Third and Fourth Dynasties according to Manetho’s Aegyptiaca /Roman Gundacker -- 5 The Entextualization of the Pyramid Texts and the Religious History of the Old Kingdom /Harold M. Hays† -- 6 Shareholders: The Menkaure Valley Temple Occupation in Context /Mark Lehner -- 7 Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition Contributions to Old Kingdom History at Giza: Some Rights and Wrongs /Peter Der Manuelian -- 8 Cattle, Kings and Priests: Phyle Rotations and Old Kingdom Civil Dates /John S. Nolan -- 9 The Sed-Festival of Niuserra and the Fifth Dynasty Sun Temples /Massimiliano Nuzzolo -- 10 The State of Egypt in the Eighth Dynasty /Hratch Papazian -- 11 The Old Kingdom Abroad: An Epistemological Perspective /Thomas Schneider -- 12 The Dawn of Osiris and the Dusk of the Sun-Temples: Religious History at the End of the Fifth Dynasty /Racheli Shalomi-Hen -- 13 Centralized Taxation during the Old Kingdom /Leslie Anne Warden -- Index.
Content:
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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004301887
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Towards a new history for the Egyptian Old Kingdom Leiden : Brill, 2015 ISBN 9789004301887
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004301894
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Ägypten
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte 2700 v. Chr.-2200 v. Chr.
;
Kongress
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1163/9789004301894
Author information:
Der Manuelian, Peter 1959-
Author information:
Schneider, Thomas 1964-
Bookmarklink
