Local Elites and Central Power in Egypt during the New Kingdom

This book explores the administration and social organisation of ancient Egypt during the New Kingdom, the age of empire, through the lives and careers of the highest classes of Egyptian society. Based on analysis and interpretation of a wide range of hieratic and hieroglyphic texts (from administrative documents and accounts, to biographies and literature), as well as iconographic and archaeological evidence (reliefs, statues and steles), it compares the transmission of power and the relevance of social provenance during the New Kingdom to other periods of ancient Egyptian history and examines the changing relationship between central power and periphery in the empire.

Both texts and figural sources are set in their historical contexts, with the aim of encouraging readers to deepen their understanding of some less-studied aspects of New Kingdom society, such as state control and the recruitment or enrolment of the elite classes. This detailed but straightforward approach will be of use to both scholars and students of Egyptology and Egyptian archaeology, and to those engaged in comparative studies of ancient history, society and culture.

Info autore

Marcella Trapani is an archaeologist and museum curator at the Italian Ministry of Culture, Italy.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Marcella Trapani
• Editore: Bloomsbury
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 09.01.2026
• EAN: 9781350343153
• ISBN: 978-1-350-34315-3
• Pagine: 224
• Illustrazioni: 30 bw illus
• Serie: Bloomsbury Egyptology
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Preistoria e protostoria; HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Egypt, Egyptian Archaeology / Egyptology, c 2686 to c 323 BCE (Ancient Egyptian period), c 1500 BCE to c 1000 BCE