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...

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Main Author:	Eyre, Christopher 1952- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford Oxford Univ. Press 2013
Edition:	1. publ.
Series:	Oxford studies in ancient documents
Subjects:	Geschichte Dokumentation Ägypten > Altertum
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	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
Physical Description:	XI, 425 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:	9780199673896 0199673896