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Egypt’s Old Kingdom in Contact with the World
2020Abstract Throughout the Old Kingdom period, the Egyptian state maintained close relations with all the regions surrounding the Nile valley. At the time when the pharaonic state launched monumental construction projects—notably the building of the gigantic pyramids of the Fourth Dynasty—the exploitation of mineral resources in the desert ...
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Redundant Determinatives in the Old Kingdom
Metropolitan Museum Journal, 1973BATTISCOMBE GUNN has long since made the observation that hieroglyphic inscriptions of the Old Kingdom characteristically omit determinatives if these ideographs are supplied by the accompanying representations.I Thus, on a stela or architrave, the twodimensional figure of the owner may itself be regarded as an enlarged determinative, supplementing the
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Diplomatical Studies in the Old Kingdom
Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 1964The beginning of Egyptian history is for us concomitant with the emergence of writing in the Nile Valley. It not only brought a means of recording, but must be considered an essential tool in the organization and administration of a large and diverse dominion.
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Juridical Expressions of the Old Kingdom
Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 1956which has juridical meaning to which no special attention has been paid hitherto. It is found in mutilated condition in the tomb of Khentika, also in an "agreement with the ka-servants," and in an unpublished inscription from Giza. In the publication of the mastaba of Khentika, B 8,1 where the inscription is badly weathered and no longer legible, James
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The Old Kingdom in Time and Space
2001Call me Ishmael. Well, you can call me anything, really, just don’t call me a monkey; my opinion of your general knowledge and level of education will be greatly reduced if you do. Fm a hominid primate and proud of it. Monkeys have tails and questionable habits and are only very distantly related to me because their evolutionary line launched off on ...
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The Artist of the Egyptian Old Kingdom
Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 1947in material and spiritual expressions. Such a presentation would naturally lead upward, culminating in a cultural climax probably within the Egyptian Empire. The opposing simplification, emphasizing the strongly static character of Egyptian culture, argues that the essential forms were established very early in the dynastic history and remained ...
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Pushing boundaries: Old Kingdom mummification revised
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2023Salima Ikram +2 more
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Revisiting the Old Kingdom at Thebes
The “tomb complex” that developed over time around the New Kingdom tomb of Neferhotep in el-Khokha comprises TT 49 (the main tomb), TT 187, TT 362, TT 363, and Kampp -347- and -348-. These tombs were heavily reused starting from the end of the New Kingdom.Lemos, Rennan +2 more
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