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The Management of Estates and their Resources in the Egyptian Old Kingdom
Joyce Swinton
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The subject of this study is an examination of the resources at the disposal of the elite class of Old Kingdom officials who administered the state on behalf of the crown. Their assets included one or more rural estates either owned outright or held in usufruct and/or enjoyed according to a land-owning system referred to as the pr Dt (estate), and all that the estate produced: a workforce if in some way bound to the estate, buildings, means of transport, household and personal effects. The resources available to these officials were the products of the estate: livestock, annually grown field crops and what could be procured from the desert margins, waterways and marshlands. Their assets and resources contributed to officials' status and authority and provided the crown with an elite class of administrators available for state service. This examination of Old Kingdom estates is based on a study of funerary images and inscriptional material that may throw light on the economic basis of high officials and on the value that they attached to the different resources at their disposal.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Dedication
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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THE DATA and THE NILE VALLEY
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INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER 1: AIMS and OBJECTIVES
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CHAPTER 2: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
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SECTION ONE: RESOURCES OF THE DESERT
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CHAPTER 3: DESERT ANIMALS
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SECTION TWO: THE PASTORAL ENVIRONMENT
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CHAPTER 4: DOMESTIC CATTLE
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CHAPTER 5: TWO FEATURES OF CATTLE MANAGEMENT
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CHAPTER 6: “SMALL CATTLE” (SHEEP and GOATS)
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CHAPTER 7: DONKEYS
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SECTION THREE: THE AGRARIAN CONTEXT
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CHAPTER 8: FIELD CROPS – CEREALS
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CHAPTER 9: FIELD CROPS – FLAX
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SECTION FOUR: RESOURCES OF THE MARSHLANDS
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CHAPTER 10: FISH
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CHAPTER 11: WILDFOWL AND POULTRY
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CHAPTER 12: PAPYRUS
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SECTION FIVE: THE RURAL ESTATE
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CHAPTER 13: MANAGEMENT OF THE ESTATE
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SECTION SIX: INTERPRETING THE DATA
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CHAPTER 14: RESOURCES OF FOUR ENVIRONMENTS
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CHAPTER 15: A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT?
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CHAPTER 16: CONCLUSIONS
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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TABLES
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Published: 2012
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407339634 (ebook)
- 9781407309842 (paperback)
BAR Number: S2392