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It connects daily routines with economic exchange and production, then links belief systems to cult practices, personal piety, magic, and conceptions of the afterlife. The study also covers education and literature, legal sources and court procedures, and work connected to royal tomb building.","Village Life in Ancient EgyptLaundry Lists and Love Songs  \nA.G.MCDOWELL  \nOXFORD  \nUNIVERSITY PRESS  \nOxford University Press,Great Clarendot Streer,Oxford oxz 6DPOxford New YorkA  \nFor my parents  \nAthens Auckland Banglkok Bogotá Buenos Aires CalcurraCape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong IstanbulKarachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Meibourne Mexico Ciry MumbaiNairobi Paris Sao Paulo Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Wasawand associated companies in Berlin Ibadan  \nOxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford Universicy Press  \nPublished in the United Statesby Oxford University Press Inc.,New York  \n◎ A.G.McDowell 1999  \nThe moral rights of che auchor have been asserted  \nAll rights reserved,No part of tchis publicacion may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system,ortransmited,in any form or by any means,withour the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press.Within che UK,exceptions are allowed in respect of any fair dealing for chepurpose of research or private study,or criticism or review,as permiredunder che Copyright,Designs and Parents Acr I988,or in the case ofreprographic reproduccion in accordance wich the terms of che licencesissued by the Copyrighr Licensing Agency.Enquiries concerningreproduction ourside these terms and in orher countries should besent to che Rights Department,Oxford Universitry Press,at the address above  \nBricish Library Cataloguing in Publicacion DataData available  \nLibrary of Congress Cacaloging in Publicacion DataVillage life in ancient Egypt:laundry lists and love songs  \nA.G.McDowell.  \nIncludes bibliographical references.  \n1.Egypt—Social life and customs—To 332 B.C.—Sources.  \n2.Egyptian language--Texts.3.Dayr al-Madinah Sice(Egypt).1.Ticle.  \nDT61.M473   999   932—dc2I 98-47423  \nISBN o-I9-814998-0  \n13579108642  \nTypeset by Best-ser Typesetter Lrd.,Hong KongPrinted in Great Bricain on acid-free paper byBookcraft(Bath)Ltd.,Midsomer Norton  \nAcknowledgements  \nI am particularly indebted to the many people who assisted me withthis book,most of whom are friends as well as colleagues and wentwell beyond the call of duty.This is especially true of those whogenerously read and commented on individual chapters,namelyJ.F.Borghouts,Rob Demarée,Cathleen Keller,Richard Parkinson,GayRobins,and Deborah Sweeny.Without their help,I would have feltmuch less comfortable about the large parts of the book that belongrather to their areas of expertise than to my own.I am also tremen-dously grateful to John Baines,with whom I discussed many aspectsof the work in progress and who has,as usual,been supportive andencouraging from beginning to end.  \nTerry Wilfong,Willem Hovestreydt,and Lynn Meskell kindlysent me copies of unpublished manuscripts,on which I drew heavily,as the reader will see from the bibliographical notes.  \nI am also pleased to have yet another chance to express my thanksto the Griffith Institute and its staff,whose help has been essential toalmost every one of my publications.Jaromir Malek,Diana McGee,and Elizabeth Miles have been unfailingly generous with their timeand assistance;while John Taylor has been a paragon of librarians,doing everything possible to get me the books I needed.I also thankSue McKay,who submitted to my incessant use of her photocopierand office supplies with endless good humour.  \nThe least expected and in that sense most gratifying assistancecame from the Center for Studies in Law,Economics,and PublicPolicy at Yale Law School,which provided me with a John M.OlinStudent Summer Fellowship to write the chapters on Law andEconomics.  \nA number of institutions very kindly permitted me to reproduceillustrations from their publications,namely,the MetropolitanMuseum of Art in New York,the.British Museum and theEgypt Exploration Society in London,and the Institut Francaisd'Archéologie Orientale in Cairo.The IFAO was particularly  \ngenerous in this regard.The most important contributor to theillustrations,however,was Marion Cox,who made the beautiful andclea","cbCaiq7n6cBM8guo","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiq7n6cBM8guo","pdf",12511591,1,148,"English","en",105,"# Contents\n## Introduction\n### The Setting\n### The Community of Workmen\n### General Description of the Site\n### The History of Occupation\n### The Excavations\n## 1. 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