TY - BOOK AU - Eyre,Christopher TI - The use of documents in Pharaonic Egypt T2 - Oxford studies in ancient documents SN - 9780199673896 (hbk) AV - DT85 .E98 2013 U1 - 320.962090 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Legal documents KW - Egypt KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - To 332 B.C N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-404) and indexes N2 - This volume reconstructs the history of documentary practice in pharaonic Egypt from the early Old Kingdom to the administrative changes imposed by the Graeco-Roman period. It explores how the writing of documents was embedded in the interactions between customary social practices and the penetration of outside hierarchies into local government ER -