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The Use of Documents in Pharaonic Egypt (Hardcover, New)
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The Use of Documents in Pharaonic Egypt (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents
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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.
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