1st Edition

Land Tenure In The Ramesside Period

By Sally L. D. Katary Copyright 1989
    350 Pages
    by Routledge

    350 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1989. Previous commentators on the Wilbour Papyrus have been daunted by the vast quantity of data presented in its assessment of land tenure in Middle Egypt during the reign of Ramesses V- data which has the potential to shed light upon many facets of economic life in Ramesside Egypt, but which has so far defied any but the broadest of generalisations. For the first time, Sally Katary has approached this important document armed with the techniques of modern statistical analysis, establishing a framework within which the socio-economic data contained in the Papyrus may be retrieved, analysed and evaluated in order to draw inferences concerning the workings of the Egyptian agricultural economy during the Twentieth Dynasty. Her study then relates the data of the Wilbur Papyrus to contemporary and near-contemporary economic and administrative documents in order to give the data an historical context and concludes by outlining future avenues of research and the appropriate methodology with which to pursue them.

    LIST OF TABLES, MAP, PREFACE, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, ABBREVIATIONS, AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION, CHAPTER 1 — THE WILBOUR PAPYRUS, CHAPTER 1 — NOTES, CHAPTER 2 — STATISTICAL MEASURES AND TESTS, CHAPTER 2 — NOTES, CHAPTER 3 — COMPUTER OPERATIONS, CHAPTER 3 — NOTES, CHAPTER 4 — SUBPROGRAM CONDESCRIPTIVE: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS FOR CONTINUOUS VARIABLES, CHAPTER 4 — NOTES, CHAPTER 5 — SUBPROGRAM FREQUENCIES: ONE-WAY FREQUENCY, CHAPTER 5 — NOTES, CHAPTER 6 — SUBPROGRAM CROSSTABS: CROSSTABULATIONS AND MEASURES OF ASSOCIATION, CHAPTER 6 — NOTES, CHAPTER 7 — RELATED RAMESSIDE ECONOMIC TEXTS, CHAPTER 7 — NOTES, CHAPTER 8 — MAJOR FINDINGS AND RESEARCH AGENDA, CHAPTER 8 — NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, APPENDICES, INDICES, ADDITIONS

    Biography

    Sally L.D. Katary