 | | | | Script and Pseudo Scripts in Graeco-Roman Egypt The paper investigates Egyptian "inscriptions" that are more or less unreadable and establishes a typology for them. Type I are hieroglyphic inscriptions made up of text snippets or even senseless pseudo hieroglyphs, type II are rows of uniform signs and type III are empty inscription fields. Examples for each are presented and the context of their production and use are discussed. | | | Feasts and Their Failures Archaeologists often interpret the physical evidence for large-scale consumption of food and beverages as the remains of feasts that successfully enhanced personal reputations, consolidated power, or ensured community solidarity. However, ethnographic accounts illustrate the potential for "feast failure": people may or may not contribute, may or may not come to the feast, may or may not be satisfied, and may or may not repay the feast-giver in labor or obeisance. Because they involve so many logistical and material components before, during, and after the event, feasts almost always... | | | "Ceramics and Status at Meidum's Northern Cemetery." MDAIK 69 (2013, published 2015): 227-246 The government of the Egyptian Old Kingdom is often thought to have exhibited strong tendencies towards centralization. The state is seen as the hand guiding economic policies, using taxation to support state activities such as (but not limited to) building. This paper reinvestigates the textual evidence for state-organized taxation in the Old Kingdom, including the Palermo Stone and late Old Kingdom exemption decrees. These documents show that taxation policies evolved from the early to late halves of that period; nowhere, however, does the state appear to rely on taxation as a regular or... | |
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