At the end of the 6th dynasty the 500 year old established order of
the Old Kingdom fell apart, which, according to the interpretation
given to various contemporary literary sources, started a period of
social unrest and economic decline. The magnitude of the economic
investment bestowed by the members of the higher social strata on
the monuments that would be the abode for their after-life leads to
the hypothesis that an economic decline could also manifest itself
in the dimensions of the various architectonic elements of these
monuments. The dimensions of the tombs have been chosen as the
subject of this study. The preliminary part of the study is
performed on the tombs in the necropolis of Giza. The results of
the study are compared with the same measurements in the
necropoleis of Saqqara and Abusir. The conclusion is that the
economic decline started already at the early dynastic period and
not as a result of the caving in of the Old Kingdom. An interesting
'side-effect' of the study is that the dimensions of the tombs can
serve as a method to check a dating that has been proposed based on
other aspect of the tomb.
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