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Pottery and economy in Old Kingdom Egypt /

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9004259848 (hardback : acid-free paper)

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9004259856

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9789004259843 (hardback : acid-free paper)

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Pottery and economy in Old Kingdom Egypt /

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

by Leslie Anne Warden

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xx, 321 pages :

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illustrations ;

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25 cm

Series Title

Culture and history of the ancient Near East ;

Volume Designation

volume 65

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-317) and index

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Contents note continued: Agency through Ceramic Production -- The Corpus -- 4.Beer Jars, Standardization, and Economy -- Typology and Methodology -- Measuring Standardization -- Measuring Human Perception in the Archaeological Record -- Beer Jars: Introduction to a Form -- Description and Technical Features -- Beer Jar Distribution -- The Beer Jar Sample -- Economic Analysis -- Methodology -- Means and Standard Deviations for Volume -- The CV for Volume, Applied to Dynastic Corpora -- Analysis of Corpora by Regnal Divisions -- Analysis by Stylistic Subtypes -- Conclusion -- 5.Bread Moulds: An Independent Economic Unit? -- Bread Moulds: Introduction to a Form -- Moulds and Mould Baked Bread -- bd Manufacture -- bd Distribution -- The bd Corpus -- Challenges of Our Bread Mould Sample -- Economic Analysis -- Methodology -- Means and Standard Deviations for Volume -- Dynastic Corpora and the CV for Volume -- CVs Above the ̀Random' Value: Working within Typologies --

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Contents note continued: CVs Above the ̀Random' Value: Finding Outliers -- Bread Moulds, versus Beer Jars -- Conclusion -- 6.Microeconomic Systems: Ceramic Production -- Potters as Economic Agents -- Potters as Specialists -- Beer Jars and Bread Moulds as Evidence for Specialist Production -- Beer Jars and Rim Values -- bd Moulds and Rim Values -- Rim Measurements and Specialization -- The Structure of Pottery Production -- The Iconographic Record and Workshop Production -- Scale of Production in the Tomb of Ptahshepses -- The Relationship of the Ceramic Industry to Other Industries -- Workshops within the Archaeological Record -- Controlling Workshops -- Controlling Production and Restricting Resources -- Conclusion -- 7.Placing Royal Administration and State Revenue -- Royal Administration and the Provinces -- The Economic Powers of the State -- State Finance -- Royal Domains -- Conclusion -- 8.The State of the Egyptian Economy -- Old Kingdom Egypt and Economic Models --

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Contents note continued: Informal and Self-Structured Economy -- Monolithic Authority as a Bad Fit -- Relationship of State and Private Enterprise -- Bread, Beer, and Grain -- The First Intermediate Period... and Beyond -- Appendices -- 1.Sites and Corpora Used in This Study -- 2.Individual Beer Jar Volumes in Samples Where n[≥]15 -- 3.Individual Bread Mould Volumes in Samples Where n[≥]14

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Egyptian Economic History; Locating Power, Placing Agency -- Employing Theory -- The Durability of Redistribution -- Keynesian Economics and Complex Economies -- Patrimonialism: The Patrimonial Household Model and Complex Adaptive Systems -- Patronage -- Cohesion and Malleability -- Spheres of Power -- Moving Forward---Data and Frameworks -- 2.Wages and Payers -- Wages and Payers -- Government as Payer -- Private Individuals as Payers -- Wage Value and Accounting -- Production of Wages: A View from Titles and Iconography -- Iconographic Evidence -- Conclusion -- 3.Archaeology, Pottery, and Economy -- Archaeological Data, Distribution, and Production -- Egyptian Archaeology and Economy: Case Studies -- The Archaeology of Bread and Beer -- Beer, Bread, and Ceramic Research -- Valuing Beer Jars and Bread Moulds -- Standardization Studies -- Volumetric Studies -- Ceramics and Microeconomic Systems: Craft Production --

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9789004259850 (online)

Pottery-- Egypt-- History

Egypt, Antiquities

Egypt, History, Early Dynastic Period, ca. 3100 B.C.-ca. 2686 B.C

Egypt, History, Old Kingdom, ca. 2686 B.C.-ca. 2181 B.C

Egypt, Politics and government, To 332 B.C

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Warden, Leslie Anne

Date of Transaction

20150618022809.0

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