Pottery and Economy in Old Kingdom Egypt

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-25984-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 65, 322 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Culture and History of the Anc

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.

Zielgruppe

Archaeologists, graduate students in Egyptology and anthropology, academic institutes and libraries, and anyone interested in the Egyptian Old Kingdom or the structuring of pharaonic society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Warden, Leslie Anne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altes Ägypten & Ägyptische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Keramik, Porzellan, Glaskunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Ägyptologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Tables
List and Figures and Charts
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Egyptian Economic History: Locating Power, Placing Agency
Chapter 2: Wages and Payers
Chapter 3: Archaeology, Pottery, and Economy
Chapter 4: Beer Jars, Standardization, and Economy
Chapter 5: Bread Moulds: An Independent Economic Unit?
Chapter 6: Microeconomic Systems: Ceramic Production
Chapter 7: Placing Royal Administration and State Revenue
Chapter 8: The State of the Egyptian Economy
Appendix 1 Sites and Corpora Used in this Study
Appendix 2 Individual Beer Jar Volumes in samples where n=15
Appendix 3Individual Bread Mould Volumes in samples where n=14
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Leslie Anne Warden, Ph.D. (2010), University of Pennsylvania, is Assistant Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Roanoke College.