Commerce and Economy in Ancient Egypt: Proceedings of the Third International Congress for Young Egyptologists 25-27 September 2009, Budapest

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Proceedings of the Third International Congress for Young Egyptologists held in Budapest in September 2009. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Preface Foreword: Earning a Living in a New Kingdom Village The Olive Tree Cultivation and Trade in Ancient Egypt The Economic Component of the Title jmy-r(3) hmw-ntr: ‘Overseer of the God’s Servants’? Use and Symbolism of Stone in Statuary: The Imitation of Painted Stones An Economic Perspective on Relationships between Near Eastern Kingdoms during the Late Bronze Age At the Intersection of Trading Routes. Commerce and Economy of Pre- and Early Dynastic Tell el-Farkha (Eastern Nile Delta) The Oracular Inscription of the High Priest of Amun Menkheperre in the Khonsu Temple at Karnak Business with Gods: The Role of Bargaining in Demotic Letters to Gods and Graeco-Roman Judicial Prayers Under the Protection of the Gods: the Divine Role for the Good Outcome of Trade and Mining Expeditions On Egyptian Wine Marketing High-Status Industries in the Capital and Royal Cities of the New Kingdom The Early Egyptian Rulers in the Nile Delta: a View from the Necropolis at Tell el-Farkha Two Egyptian Private-Law Documents of the Old Kingdom Storage in the Ancient Egyptian Palaces Pottery as an Economic Indicator in Egypt’s Marginal Sites The Grain Trade and the Importance of Egypt for the Economy of the Hellenistic-Roman World: Some Remarks Inscribed Stone Vessels as Symbols of the Egypto-Achaemenid Economic Encounter Customs Duty in the New Kingdom Maritime Study on North- and Southbound Trade: the Red Sea Harbours Gifts Exchange and Tribute in the Amarna Correspondence Commercial Routes in Upper Egypt from Naqada II to the Protodynastic: Defining Patterns of Interaction Lead Weights and Ingots from Heracleion-Thonis: an Illustration of Egyptian Trade Relations with the Aegean The Egyptian Economy: Sources, Models and History Trade and Money in Ramessid Egypt: the Use of General Equivalents in Economic Transactions List of Abbreviations