Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt

Alexandre Loktionov is Professor of Egyptology at HSE University, Moscow and Budge Fellow in Egyptology at Christ’s College, Cambridge. He is also a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College, London, a Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His main research interests lie in Ancient Egyptian justice, exchange of intellectual culture between Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and the history of Egyptology. He holds PhD, MPhil and BA degrees from the University of Cambridge and has also previously worked at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

• Preface – Alexandre LoktionovIntroduction: Pluralisms of Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt – Alexandre LoktionovI. Compulsion and Control in the Temple Sphere1. The Turin Indictment Papyrus (P. Turin C. 1887): an Enquiry about the Forms of Compulsion in the Text – Marcella Trapani2. The Egyptian Temples of Oxyrhynchus and their Personnel Under the Roman Empire – Leah MasciaII. Compulsion and Control in Religious and Funerary Thought3. ‘You shall not constrain my bꜢ’. Control through and of the bꜢ.(w) – Anne Landborg4. Ancestors as a Source of Legal Authority – Renata SchiavoIII. Compulsion and Control around Borders5. Fort-building and Violence as the Mode of Control of the Margins in Late Middle Kingdom Nubia – Adam Fagbore6. Compulsory Foreign Labour in Late Bronze Age Egypt: Towards Understanding a Forced Migration-Unfree Labour Nexus – Christian Langer7. Unwritten Compulsion: Social Integration, Norms and Self-Control at Kurgus in Medieval Nubia – Loretta KilroeIV. Compulsion and Control in the Administration of Labour and Human Resources8. Controlling Workforces at the Palace: Some Perspectives on Administrative Practice at Kom Medinet Gurob – Fredrik Hagen9. Bureaucratic Control of New Kingdom Tomb Building Projects – Rune OlsenV. Compulsion and Control in Text and Image10. Images of Control and Submission in Old Kingdom Funerary Iconography: The Egyptian Tomb as a ‘Disciplinary Institution’ – Matthieu Hagenmüller11. Social Control in Middle Kingdom Egypt: Embodied Experience and Symbolic Violence – Margaret Maitland12. Human Branding Practices during the New Kingdom: A Form of Control between Metaphor and Reality – Marta ValerioVI. Compulsion and Control through Patronage and Unequal Status Relationships13. Patronage and Protection in Late Pharaonic and Ptolemaic Egypt – Brian Muhs14. “When Dad says no”: Paternal Authority and Control in the Context of Egyptian Men’s First Marriages – Steffie van GompelVII. The Language of Compulsion and Control15. Words that bind: Earlier Egyptian Language of Compulsion and Control – Sami Uljas16. How to tell of Compulsion and Control in Demotic: a Prospect from Contextual Narratology – John Tait17. Perceptions of Liberty in the Coptic Period: Affective Responses to Socio-religious Pressures in the Western Desert – Victoria Fendel