I. INTRODUCTION

1. What is the grain storage and how to study it?

PART 1. THE CORPUS

II. GRAIN STORAGE IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE

1. Cereals grown between the Old and the Middle Kindom

2. Storage facilities and containers

2.1. Type 1: Circular storage facilities

2.2. Type 2: Orthogonal structures

2.3. Type 3: Magazines

2.4. Type 4 and 5: pits and containers

2.5. Invisible silos?

3. Concluding remarks

III. ICONOGRAPHY OF THE GRAIN STORAGE

1. Cereals in contemporary images

2. The two-dimensional images of storage facilities

2.1. Type 1 (circular silos)

2.2. Type 2 (orthogonal, vaulted)

2.3. Type 3 (orthogonal)

2.4. Evolution of other components

3. The two-dimensional images of storage facilities and their accompanying labels

4. The three-dimensional images of storage facilities

4.1. Type M1 (individual silos and models composed of rows of circular silos)

4.2. Type M2 (orthogonal storage structures)

5. Type 4 (containers)

5.1. Type 4A (pottery containers)

5.2. Type 4B (bags, sacks and baskets)

6. Concluding remarks

IV. GRAIN STORAGE IN WRITTEN SOURCES

1. Contemporary terms referring to cereals

1.1. J.t

1.2. B8.6

1.3. 4w.t

1.4. PxA

1.5. 4Sr

1.6. BSA

1.7. 4X.t (sS.t)

2. Contemporary terms referring to built-up storage facilities

2.1. 5nw.t

2.2. Mxr/mXr

2.3. 5Aa

2.4. 5na

2.5. WDA

2.6. 2tm

2.7. 5na, wDA and xtm identification

3. Contemporary terms referring to containers

3.1. 5d

3.2. 3Ar

3.3. 4TA(.t)

3.4. 8mA

4. Concluding remarks

PART 2. socio-economic implications of tHe attested storage practices

V. GRAIN STORAGE FACILITIES: SOCIO-ECONOMIC MODELS AND THE ORGANIZATION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION

5. Organization of agricultural production

5.1. Evidence

5.2. Patrimonial Household Model

5.3. Rural landscape

6. Old Kingdom sites

6.1. Old Kingdom Elephantine

6.2. Dakhla Oasis

6.3. Dahshur

6.4. Abu Rawash

6.5. Giza

6.6. Abusir

6.7. Saqqara

6.8. Pyramid towns, the summary

6.9. Old Kindom sites, concluding remarks

7. First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom sites

7.1. Middle Kingdom Elephantine

7.2. Abydos North and Abu Ghalib

7.3. Tell ed-Daba FI (13th Dynasty) and Memphis

7.4. Ezbet Rushdi

7.5. Middle Kingdom household producers, the Summary

7.6. Lahun

7.7. Other individual subjects

7.8. Nubian fortresses: Case of Askut and Uronarti

7.9. The Middle Kindom storage practices in comparison to those of the Old Kindom

V. GRAIN STORAGE BETWEEN THE OLD AND THE MIDDLE KINDOM, CONCLUDING REMARKS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Abbreviations

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