‘I Gave Grain to All of Dendera in its Entirety’: Mentions of Large-scale Food Donations in the VIth Upper Egyptian Nome in the First Intermediate Period

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‘I Gave Grain to All of Dendera in its Entirety’: Mentions of Large-scale Food Donations in the VIth Upper Egyptian Nome in the First Intermediate Period. / Demidchik, Arkadiy .

в: Agypten und Levante, Том 32, 2022, стр. 47-56.

Результаты исследований: Научные публикации в периодических изданиях › статья › Рецензирование

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title = "{\textquoteleft}I Gave Grain to All of Dendera in its Entirety{\textquoteright}: Mentions of Large-scale Food Donations in the VIth Upper Egyptian Nome in the First Intermediate Period",

abstract = "The paper scrutinizes written sources onlarge-scale food donations in the Denderite nomeduring the First Intermediate Period, paying special attention to their contexts – the official statuses of the owners of these inscriptions, the peculiarities of their monuments, etc. Such data cast anew light on incentives for boasting about lavishfood donations in Denderite autobiographies.While the owners of the inscriptions in questionhave relatively humble official positions, theirfunerary monuments appear to be very expensiveby the Dendera cemetery standards of the time.The author argues that these Denderites emphasized their generous food donations primarily tojustify their moral entitlement to their monuments,which would otherwise have appeared far toosumptuous for the persons not belonging to theadministrative elite.",

keywords = "Ancient Egypt, First Intermediate Period, Dendera, famine, food donations",

author = "Arkadiy Demidchik",

note = "Demidchik A. {\textquoteleft}I Gave Grain to All of Dendera in its Entirety{\textquoteright}: Mentions of Large-scale Food Donations in the VIth Upper Egyptian Nome in the First Intermediate Period. {\"A}gypten und Levante. Internationale Zeitschrift f{\"u}r {\"a}gyptische Arch{\"a}ologie und deren Nachbargebiete / Egypt and the Levant. International Journal for Egyptian Archaeology and Related Disciplines. 2022. Bd. 32. Pp. 47–56.",

year = "2022",

language = "English",

volume = "32",

pages = "47--56",

journal = "Agypten und Levante",

issn = "1015-5104",

publisher = "Verlag der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften",

}

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