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Toward a Study of the Poor and Poverty in Ancient Egypt: Preliminary Thoughts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2019

Delphine Driaux
Delphine Driaux*
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Department of Egyptology, University of Vienna, Franz-Klein-Gasse 1, 1190Vienna, Austria Email: delphine.driaux@univie.ac.at
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Abstract

Poverty in ancient Egypt remains a rarely-studied subject. For decades Egyptologists have focused their attention mainly on the so-called ‘elite’, while the poor, their housing, their possessions, their diet, or their cultural values, remain largely in the shadows. Although they are much less visible archaeologically, they were much more numerous than the wealthy. Despite these circumstances, ancient Egypt provides a good starting point for discussing how to approach poverty during antiquity, as there are archaeological and textual records that can shed light on this complex issue. This article aims to stimulate reflection on the issue of poverty in the Nile valley and how it can be explored. It seeks also to add nuance to the idea of a strict dichotomy opposing the poor to the elite. In so doing, this paper will present discussion of the definition of poverty.

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Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , February 2020 , pp. 1 - 19
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Copyright © McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 2019

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