The Use of Documents in Pharaonic Egypt
Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 October 2013
- ISBN 9780199673896
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages438 pages
- Size 237x162x32 mm
- Weight 824 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 in-text illustrations 0
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Short description:
This volume reconstructs the history of documentary practice in pharaonic Egypt from the early Old Kingdom to the administrative changes imposed by the Graeco-Roman period. It explores how the writing of documents was embedded in the interactions between customary social practices and the penetration of outside hierarchies into local government.
MoreLong description:
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.
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.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Abbreviations
The Invention of the Document in Pharonic Egypt
The Physical Form of Writing
The Vizier as Bureaucrat
The Written Authorisation
Land and People
Bureaucratic Process at Dier el Medina
Process, Storage, and Record
Conclusion
Bilbliography
Index
