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event · evt_egyfull_temple_land_patronage_first_millennium

First-millennium temple land and patronage networks

Royal and private donations, temple estates and offices linked land, personnel, cult and elite patronage.

Evidence confidence: high
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What is the evidence?

observation

Royal and private donations, temple estates and offices linked land, personnel, cult and elite patronage.

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Review and provenance

Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.

Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.

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Chronology

Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.

Preferred assertion

1069 BCE–332 BCE

Precision: range

high

Preferred display range for this release. It does not suppress model-specific dates, regnal uncertainty or alternative period boundaries recorded elsewhere.

  • supports · provides primary text synthesis
    Land Donations — Juan Carlos Moreno García (2013)

    Supports institutional and legal complexity.


    Locator: Temple donations, patronage and rights
  • supports · provides archaeological context
    Late Period Temples — Christiane Zivie-Coche (2008)

    Supports built institutional landscapes.


    Locator: Late Period temples

Interpretation and caveats

Temple institutions were durable local power centres, but rights over land and personnel were overlapping and cannot be reduced to modern private ownership.

Event context

Classification

Event type: institutional economic process

Evidence layer: historical and archaeological

Timeline role: regional core

Why it matters to the timeline

Connects religion, land, taxation, elite strategies and local government.

Research notes

  • Supports institutional and legal complexity. Role: provides primary text synthesis. Locator: Temple donations, patronage and rights.
  • Supports built institutional landscapes. Role: provides archaeological context. Locator: Late Period temples.

Evidence and sources

  • supports · provides primary text synthesis
    Land Donations — Juan Carlos Moreno García (2013)

    Supports institutional and legal complexity.


    Locator: Temple donations, patronage and rights
  • supports · provides archaeological context
    Late Period Temples — Christiane Zivie-Coche (2008)

    Supports built institutional landscapes.


    Locator: Late Period temples

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