Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

• Boston : Brill, [2015]
• ©2015

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Der Manuelian, Peter
• Schneider, Thomas, 1964-

Description

vi, 529 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Series Statement

Harvard Egyptological studies ; volume 1

Uniform Title

Harvard Egyptological studies ; v. 1.

Subjects

• Egypt
• Egypt > Antiquities > Congresses
• Antiquities
• History
• Conference papers and proceedings
• To 332 B.C
• Egypt > History > Old Kingdom, ca. 2686-ca. 2181 B.C > Congresses
• Egypt > Politics and government > To 332 B.C > Congresses
• Politics and government

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

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.

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.

Call Number

JFE 15-8548

ISBN

• 9789004301887 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004301887 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9789004301894 (e-book)
• 9004301895 (e-book)

LCCN

2015020779

OCLC

910424392

Title

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

Publisher

Boston : Brill, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Harvard Egyptological studies ; volume 1

Harvard Egyptological studies ; v. 1.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

To 332 B.C.

Added Author

Der Manuelian, Peter, editor.

Schneider, Thomas, 1964- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-8548