Social life in ancient Egypt / by W.M. Flinders Petrie.

  • Flinders Petrie
Date:
1923
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Social life in ancient Egypt / by W.M. Flinders Petrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Oxen, 138 Oxyrhynkhos, 51 Paint freely used, 146 Palace, chief of, 41 Palm leaf plaited, 143 Paper currency for inter¬ national trade, 6 Papyrus used, 143-4 Parched corn, 135 Parents supported by daugh¬ ters, 120 Patrol roads, 180 Persia sends taxes abroad, 58 treasure of, 6 Pessimism, 96 Petitions entered, 86 Phoenician trade, 163 Pigs kept, 138 treading in grain, 133 Platinum, 150 Pleaders unknown, 87 Plough, forms of, 134 Pluralists, 17 Police directors, 19, 45, 50 under Government, 50 Poll tax, 63 Polygamy of kings, 112 private, 112 Population, increase of, 29 limits of, 30 Potted food (?), 18 Pottery, 147 Praisers and harpers, 41 Prefect of city, 19 of Egypt, 47, 48, 89 Priests as teachers, 123 funereal, 29, 121 legal position, 91 monogamous, 113 of king, 35 Priesthoods devolved, 34 revenues, 52 succession to, 119, 120, 121 Priestly lands, 13 free of tax, 57 taxed in return for grant, 62 property, 91, 121 Prisoners as slaves, 24 Private rooms, directors of, 18 Probate of will, 114 Procedure, legal, 43, 54, 86-90 Property held by women, 74, 109 laws, 77 Prophets of Amen, 120 Ptah-hetep, maxims of, 69 Ptolemais, 50 Public lands of village, 81 services gratuitous, 51-2 works, levy for, 22, 45, 53 Punishments, 82, 92-3 Punt, trade to, 160 Purgation from evil, 71 Purification by removal of flesh, 71 Pyramid-building organisation, 25 Qadi court, 45 Quarries State property, 62 Quarrying, 188 Queen, keeper of palace of, 42 scribe of letters of, 42 Ra, descent of kings from, 111 Rainfall ceasing, 3 Reaping, 134 Recorder, chief royal, 41 Red Sea canal, 185 trade, 159 Reed buildings, 169 Registration of deeds, 49 of households, 43, 107-8 Registry, 85 Rekhmara, 39, 42, 53, 85 Religious offices of king, 9, 35 Rent uniform or by share, 80 Reporter, 18 Reporters to vezier, 39, 48 Reservoir of the Fayum, 182 Revenue of central govern¬ ment, 54 Rewards in army, 199 Rise from lower classes, 46 Road taxes, 63
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