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Social context of the Old Kingdom copper model tools

World Archaeology, 2015
Copper model tools were usually part of the elite burial equipment during the Old Kingdom in the Ancient Egypt. Definition of tool types is based on the semiotic triangle and a correct reading and interpretation of the artefacts is approached here. Model
Martin Odler, Veronika Dulíková
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Egypt’s Old Kingdom

2020
Abstract This chapter explores the vivid, dynamic, and multifaceted political history of the Old Kingdom of Egypt (twenty-sixth to twenty-second centuries bc). It focuses in particular on the evolution of Egyptian society and the role of state offices and bureaucracy in defining social status.
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The Cultural Context of Egyptian Mathematics in the Old Kingdom

, 2016
This chapter discusses the use of mathematics in the Old Kingdom. A number of sources provide information about the kind of mathematics and its context at that time.
Annette Imhausen
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Egypt’s Old Kingdom in Contact with the World

2020
Abstract 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, 1973
BATTISCOMBE 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, 1964
The 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, 1956
which 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

2001
Call 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, 1947
in 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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Old Kingdom

2021
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