Domain of Pharaoh: The structure and components of the economy of Old Kingdom Egypt

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" Domain of Pharaoh: The structure and components of the economy of Old Kingdom Egypt "
Hratch Papazian R. K. Ritner

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	53679
Doc. No	:	TL23633
Call number	:	‭3181394‬
Main Entry	:	Hratch Papazian
Title & Author	:	Domain of Pharaoh: The structure and components of the economy of Old Kingdom Egypt\ Hratch Papazian
College	:	The University of Chicago
Date	:	2005
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2005
Page No	:	388
Abstract	:	The economic structure and administration of Egypt's Old Kingdom remain unevenly understood, partly as a result of assumptions formed based on the reliance on material from later periods of Egyptian history, as well as through the improper application of contemporaneous evidence to the particular setting of the first Dynasties of Egypt. Temples did not assume an economic role until the later stages of the Old Kingdom. The system of “Temple Economy”, best characterized by the organizational paradigm of the New Kingdom, may have originated at the end of the Sixth Dynasty. The development that culminated in the eventual grouping of economic responsibilities at temples was achieved following certain discernible administrative initiatives during the Fifth Dynasty. Until that time, the Egyptian economy exhibited features of a management system based at the palace of the reigning Pharaoh, who controlled the various components of that order, namely the economic domains (some of which were connected with the celebration of the royal cult) and the processing and storage complexes. The transference of the economic agency of Egypt from the palace to the temple represented a policy aimed at managing holdings and resources more efficiently, and did not in any way result in the independence of the temple from the state.
Subject	:	Social sciences; Language, literature and linguistics; Economy; Egypt; Fifth Dynasty; Old Kingdom; Pharaoh; Royal cult; Temples; Ancient languages; Ancient civilizations; 0579:Ancient civilizations; 0289:Ancient languages
Added Entry	:	R. K. Ritner
Added Entry	:	The University of Chicago