Use of Documents in Pharaonic Egypt
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780199673896
Subjects: Legal documents; Egypt, politics and government
Description: This volume reconstructs the history of documentary practice in pharaonic Egypt from the early Old Kingdom to the administrative changes imposed by the Graeco-Roman period. It explores how the writing of documents was embedded in the interactions between customary social practices and the penetration of outside hierarchies into local government.