Ancient Egyptian administration / edited by Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia.

The study of ancient Egyptian administration / Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia -- The organization of a nascent state : Egypt until the beginning of the 4th dynasty / Eva-Maria Engel -- The central administration of the resources in the old kingdom : departments, treasuries, granaries and work centers / Hratch Papazian -- The territorial administration of the kingdom in the 3rd millennium / Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia -- Kings, viziers and courtiers : executive power in the third millennium B.C. / Miroslav Barta -- The administration of the royal funerary complexes / Hana Vymazalova -- Balat, a frontier town and its archive / Laure Pantalacci -- Setting a state anew : the central administration from the end of the old kingdom to the end of the middle kingdom / Wolfram Grajetzki -- The royal command : a basic deed of executive power / Pascal Vernus -- Nomarchs and local potentates : the provincial administration in the middle kingdom / Harco Willems -- The organisation of the pharaonic army (old to new kingdom) / Anthony Spalinger -- Categorisation, classification, and social reality : administrative control and -- Interaction with the population / Katalin Anna Kothay -- Crisis and restructuring of the state : from the second intermediate period to the advent of the Ramesses / J.J. Shirley -- The rising power of the House of Amun in the new kingdom / Ben J.J. Haring -- Coping with the army : the military and the state in the new kingdom / Andrea M. Gnirs -- The administration of institutional agriculture in the new kingdom / Sally L.D. Katary -- A bureaucratic challenge? : archaeology and administration in a desert environment (second millennium BCE) / John Coleman Darnell -- The Ramessid state / Pierre Grandet -- Administration of the deserts and oases : first millennium B.C.E. / David Klotz -- From conquered to conqueror : the organization of Nubia in the new kingdom -- And the Kushite administration of Egypt / Robert Morkot -- The Saite period : the emergence of a Mediterranean power / Damien Agut-Labordere -- The 'other' administration : patronage, factions, and informal networks of power in ancient Egypt / Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia.

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The book provides an up-to-date overview of the structure, organization and evolution of the pharaonic administration from its origins to the middle of the first millennium BCE. General descriptions are supplemented by specific analysis of key archives, practices and institutions.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English.

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