Re-Fragmentation of the Pharonic State. The new power of the local elite(s) at the end of the third millennium (13)

• Subject Area: Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
• Term: from 2016 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 257731206

In the first project-stage, the sub-project examined the strategies to shape hierarchies and the development of power structures resulting in a very new type of state extended over a large territory. In symmetry, the second stage of the sub-project examines the first refragmentation of this ‘territorial state’ with its focus on the local elites. The strategies of presentation and legitimation of the elites during this period of extensive transformation, both regarding social-history and history of mentalities, is analysed systematically and at the same time specifically based on two case studies of two local potentates.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1167: Macht and Herrschaft – Premodern Configurations in a Transcultural Perspective
• Applicant Institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Ludwig D. Morenz, since 7/2020