Use of Documents in Pharaonic Egypt (inbunden)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents
Antal sidor
438
Utgivningsdatum
2013-10-31
Förlag
Oxford University Press
Dimensioner
234 x 157 x 38 mm
Vikt
817 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780199673896

Use of Documents in Pharaonic Egypt

av Christopher Eyre, Christopher Eyre
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2013-10-31
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This volume reconstructs the history of documentary practice in pharaonic Egypt from the early Old Kingdom to the major administrative changes imposed by the colonizing regimes of the Graeco-Roman period. Relating administrative and legal practice to the physical practicalities of the media used for writing, and through the close reading of primary textual sources, it examines how different types of documents - private and official - were created and used. It explores the ways in which the writing of documents was embedded deeply in the interactions between customary social practices, which were essentially oral, and in the penetration of outside hierarchies into local government. Eyre argues that the potential of the written document as evidence or proof was never fully exploited in the pharaonic period, even though writing was a powerful symbol and display of hierarchical authority. He presents the government as a system rooted in personal prestige and patronage structures, lacking the effective departmental hierarchies and archive systems that would represent a true bureaucratic system.

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Kathryn Howley, Bibliotheca Orientalis The book as a whole is a very valuable addition to the Egyptological literature: Eyres use of literary sources to uncover the social process of writing is refreshing, as is his aim, in a discipline where much time is spent translating texts, to have a more reflective basis upon which to evaluate their content.

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Christopher Eyre is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Liverpool.

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