In Pottery and Economy in Old Kingdom Egypt, Leslie Anne Warden
investigates the economic importance of utilitarian ceramics,
particularly beer jars and bread moulds, in third millennium BC
Egypt. The Egyptian economy at this period is frequently presented
as state-centric or state-defined. This study forwards new
methodology for a bottom-up approach to Egyptian economy, analyzing
economic relationships through careful analysis of variation within
the utilitarian wares which formed the basis of much economic
exchange in the period. Beer jars and bread moulds, together with
their archaeological, textual, and iconographic contexts, thus
yield a framework for the economy which is fluid, agent-based, and
defined by small scale, face-to-face relationships rather than the
state.
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