Complexity of Ancient Egyptian Society during the First to Sixth Dynasty Based on Written Sources – The case of Egyptian households

Description

The dissertation employed an interdisciplinary approach that evaluated primary sources (text and iconography) from mortuary contexts in the first six dynasties to establish the identified extended household of various males from different social classes, beyond kin, who were included in the tomb complex by the owner to ensure the named dependents also participated in the afterlife. This work utilises a relatively new innovative framework that incorporates the social and economic structure of the state, patronage relationships, which contrasts with more centralised state studies of ancient Egypt.

Period	2024
Examinee	Věra Nováková
Examination held at	Charles University, Faculty of Arts
Degree of Recognition	International