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Grain Storage in Ancient Egypt (2600-1650 BC). Typology and socio-economic implications

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Bardonova, Martina. (2023). Grain Storage in Ancient Egypt (2600-1650 BC). Typology and socio-economic implications. Universidad de Jaén. UJA Editorial

Grain Storage in Ancient Egypt (2600-1650 BC). Typology and socio-economic implications

The present book deals with the complex subject of the Grain storage in ancient Egypt during earlier historical eras (2600-1650 BC). It comprises the typology of contemporary storage structures and the study of storage practices and their relations to the socio-economic and political changes taking place in the given era.

Autor/a
Colección
Arqueologías. Serie Egiptología
Idioma
  • English
Editorial
UJA Editorial
EAN
9788491595663
ISBN
978-84-9159-566-3
Páginas
440
Edición
1
Fecha publicación
31-12-2023
Número en la colección
5
DRM
DRM

Sobre Martina Bardonova

  • Martina Bardonova
    Martina got trained in Egyptology and History at the Charles University in Prague obtaining a double-degree MA in 2011. In 2019 she obtained her PhD in Egyptology. Between 2019 and 2021 she was employed at the Czech Institute of Egyptology as a researcher within the projects KREA... Ver más sobre el autor

Contenidos

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

INTERNET RESOURCES

ANNEX (THE CATALOGUE)

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