Labour organisation in Middle Kingdom Egypt
This thesis explores the organisation of labour in the Middle Kingdom through archaeological and textual data. Previous studies have focussed predominantly on the upper ranks of labour organisation and have favoured sites which yielded repertoires of 'valuable' objects. The aim of this thesis is to reconstruct labour organisation at the bottom end of administration and to understand how labour was embedded in the material world. Major lines of inquiry are the social profile and human activity of those strata of society liable to conscription, type of employments and temporality of work, management and administrative procedures in labour organisation. These questions will be addressed through a separate examination of textual sources and archaeological data. The archaeological record includes material from the late Middle Kingdom complex of Qasr es-Sagha (Faiyum) and the early 12th dynasty settlement in area F/1 of Tell el-Daba (Eastern Delta). The primary textual source are the papyri discovered by Flinders Petrie and Ludwig Borchardt at Lahun (Faiyum), integrated by other administrative documents and monuments such as funerary stelae and rock inscriptions. In the final chapters the outcomes reached by examining
Di Teodoro, M.
Labour organisation in Middle Kingdom Egypt. This thesis explores the organisation of labour in the Middle Kingdom through archaeological and textual data. Previous studies have focussed predominantly on the upper ranks of labour organisation and have favoured sites which yielded repertoires of 'valuable' objects. The aim of this thesis is to reconstruct labour organisation at the bottom end of administration and to understand how labour was embedded in the material world. Major lines of inquiry are the social profile and human activity of those strata of society liable to conscription, type of employments and temporality of work, management and administrative procedures in labour organisation. These questions will be addressed through a separate examination of textual sources and archaeological data. The archaeological record includes material from the late Middle Kingdom complex of Qasr es-Sagha (Faiyum) and the early 12th dynasty settlement in area F/1 of Tell el-Daba (Eastern Delta). The primary textual source are the papyri discovered by Flinders Petrie and Ludwig Borchardt at Lahun (Faiyum), integrated by other administrative documents and monuments such as funerary stelae and rock inscriptions. In the final chapters the outcomes reached by examining
labour_organisation middle_kingdom egypt explores organisation labour middle_kingdom archaeological_textual data previous_study focus predominantly upper rank labour_organisation favour site yield repertoire valuable object aim_reconstruct labour_organisation bottom end administration labour embed material world major line inquiry social profile human_activity stratum society conscription type employment temporality work management administrative procedure labour_organisation question_address separate examination textual_source archaeological_data archaeological_record include material late middle_kingdom complex settlement area tell eastern delta primary textual_source papyrus discover integrate administrative document monument funerary rock inscription final outcome reach examine