The use of documents in Pharaonic Egypt /

This volume reconstructs the history of documentary practice in pharaonic Egypt from the early Old Kingdom to the administrative changes imposed by the Graeco-Roman period. It explores how the writing of documents was embedded in the interactions between customary social practices and the penetratio...

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Main Authors: Eyre, Christopher
Corporate Authors: Oxford University Press.
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford :
Publication Dates: 2013.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Oxford studies in ancient documents
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Online Access: http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=76c310b929044b409fc90cce16cac4da
Summary: This volume reconstructs the history of documentary practice in pharaonic Egypt from the early Old Kingdom to the administrative changes imposed by the Graeco-Roman period. It explores how the writing of documents was embedded in the interactions between customary social practices and the penetration of outside hierarchies into local government.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xi, 425 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [360]-404) and indexes.
ISBN: 9780191655296
9780199673896
CLC: D741.12