TY - JOUR

T1 - The Reference to the Leasing of Land on Stela Krakow National Museum MNK-XI-999 from the First Intermediate Period

AU - Demidchik, Arkadiy

N1 - Funding Information: I am happy to express my gratitude to Ivan Bogdanov (St. Petersburg), who added several important bibliographic references. I am also most thankful to him and Koenraad Donker van Heel (Leiden) for providing me with copies of a few necessary publications. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.

PY - 2022/6/1

Y1 - 2022/6/1

N2 - Our knowledge regarding the practice of land lease in Egypt of the III-II millennia BC still remains very patchy. To date, the oldest evidence of its existence are considered to be the Heqanakht letters from the Middle Kingdom. The article argues, however, that oblique references to it occurred as early as in the First Intermediate Period, and simply have not yet been recognized as such. In the autobiographical inscription of the overseer of butchers Merer, the collocation is being shown to be about land lease; Merer's risk-management strategy against too low inundations was akin to that of Heqanakht. The situation reported in the inscription of the overseer of priests Rehui (Manchester 5052) is reminiscent of that described in the demotic literary story of Djedher (p British Museum EA 69532, ll. 6-9).

AB - Our knowledge regarding the practice of land lease in Egypt of the III-II millennia BC still remains very patchy. To date, the oldest evidence of its existence are considered to be the Heqanakht letters from the Middle Kingdom. The article argues, however, that oblique references to it occurred as early as in the First Intermediate Period, and simply have not yet been recognized as such. In the autobiographical inscription of the overseer of butchers Merer, the collocation is being shown to be about land lease; Merer's risk-management strategy against too low inundations was akin to that of Heqanakht. The situation reported in the inscription of the overseer of priests Rehui (Manchester 5052) is reminiscent of that described in the demotic literary story of Djedher (p British Museum EA 69532, ll. 6-9).

KW - 1Intermediate Period

KW - inundation

KW - land tenure

KW - leasing

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U2 - 10.1515/zaes-2020-0012

DO - 10.1515/zaes-2020-0012

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85131561655

VL - 149

SP - 17

EP - 22

JO - Zeitschrift fur Agyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde

JF - Zeitschrift fur Agyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde

SN - 0044-216X

IS - 1

M1 - 2

ER -