Bronze Age World

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relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides economic context · Temple donations and patronage networks
Supports land and institutional dimensions.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides economic context · Temple donations and patronage networks
Supports land and institutional dimensions.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides primary text synthesis · Temple donations, patronage and rights
Supports institutional and legal complexity.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides primary text synthesis · Temple donations, patronage and rights
Supports institutional and legal complexity.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides primary text synthesis · Temple donations, patronage and rights
Supports institutional and legal complexity.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides primary text synthesis · Temple donations, patronage and rights
Supports institutional and legal complexity.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides temple and patronage context · Saite land donations and temple power
Supports institutional mechanisms.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides temple and patronage context · Saite land donations and temple power
Supports institutional mechanisms.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides temple and patronage context · Saite land donations and temple power
Supports institutional mechanisms.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides temple economic context · Saite temple patronage
Supports institutional policy.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides temple economic context · Saite temple patronage
Supports institutional policy.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides temple economic context · Saite temple patronage
Supports institutional policy.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides temple institutional context · Temple patronage and land networks
Supports institutional power beyond court chronology.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides temple institutional context · Temple patronage and land networks
Supports institutional power beyond court chronology.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides temple institutional context · Temple patronage and land networks
Supports institutional power beyond court chronology.
property Temple institutional power
Evidence confidence: high
supports · defines and contextualizes · Temples, donations and patronage networks
Supports the definition and its limits.
entity Theban domain of Amun and high-priestly government
Evidence confidence: high
supports · defines political formation · Political history and chronology discussion
Supports the formation and its cautions.
date assertion Theban domain of Amun and high-priestly government — date assertion
Evidence confidence: high
supports · defines political formation · Political history and chronology discussion
Supports the formation and its cautions.
relationship Expansion of the God's Wife of Amun as a political and economic office — occurred at or involved — Karnak
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides economic context · Temple donations and patronage networks
Supports land and institutional dimensions.
relationship Expansion of the God's Wife of Amun as a political and economic office — occurred at or involved — Thebes
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides economic context · Temple donations and patronage networks
Supports land and institutional dimensions.
relationship Temple estates and patronage networks — involved or associated with — Expansion of the God's Wife of Amun as a political and economic office
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides economic context · Temple donations and patronage networks
Supports land and institutional dimensions.
relationship God's Wife of Amun — involved or associated with — Expansion of the God's Wife of Amun as a political and economic office
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides economic context · Temple donations and patronage networks
Supports land and institutional dimensions.
date assertion Expansion of the God's Wife of Amun as a political and economic office — date assertion
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides economic context · Temple donations and patronage networks
Supports land and institutional dimensions.
event Expansion of the God's Wife of Amun as a political and economic office
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides economic context · Temple donations and patronage networks
Supports land and institutional dimensions.
relationship First-millennium temple land and patronage networks — occurred at or involved — Sais
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides primary text synthesis · Temple donations, patronage and rights
Supports institutional and legal complexity.
relationship God's Wife of Amun — involved or associated with — First-millennium temple land and patronage networks
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides primary text synthesis · Temple donations, patronage and rights
Supports institutional and legal complexity.
relationship Temple estates and patronage networks — involved or associated with — First-millennium temple land and patronage networks
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides primary text synthesis · Temple donations, patronage and rights
Supports institutional and legal complexity.
event First-millennium temple land and patronage networks
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides primary text synthesis · Temple donations, patronage and rights
Supports institutional and legal complexity.
date assertion First-millennium temple land and patronage networks — date assertion
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides primary text synthesis · Temple donations, patronage and rights
Supports institutional and legal complexity.
relationship First-millennium temple land and patronage networks — occurred at or involved — Karnak
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides primary text synthesis · Temple donations, patronage and rights
Supports institutional and legal complexity.
relationship First-millennium temple land and patronage networks — occurred at or involved — Mendes
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides primary text synthesis · Temple donations, patronage and rights
Supports institutional and legal complexity.
relationship First-millennium temple land and patronage networks — occurred at or involved — Tanis
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides primary text synthesis · Temple donations, patronage and rights
Supports institutional and legal complexity.
relationship Psamtik I — involved or associated with — Psamtik I's Saite consolidation
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple and patronage context · Saite land donations and temple power
Supports institutional mechanisms.
date assertion Psamtik I's Saite consolidation — date assertion
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple and patronage context · Saite land donations and temple power
Supports institutional mechanisms.
event Psamtik I's Saite consolidation
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple and patronage context · Saite land donations and temple power
Supports institutional mechanisms.
relationship Psamtik I's Saite consolidation — occurred at or involved — Memphis
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple and patronage context · Saite land donations and temple power
Supports institutional mechanisms.
relationship Psamtik I's Saite consolidation — occurred at or involved — Sais
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple and patronage context · Saite land donations and temple power
Supports institutional mechanisms.
relationship Psamtik I's Saite consolidation — occurred at or involved — Thebes
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple and patronage context · Saite land donations and temple power
Supports institutional mechanisms.
relationship Saite Dynasty 26 state — involved or associated with — Psamtik I's Saite consolidation
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple and patronage context · Saite land donations and temple power
Supports institutional mechanisms.
relationship Egyptian, Greek, Phoenician and other communities at Naukratis — involved or associated with — Amasis-era regulation, temple patronage and Mediterranean relationships
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple economic context · Saite temple patronage
Supports institutional policy.
relationship Amasis-era regulation, temple patronage and Mediterranean relationships — occurred at or involved — Mendes
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple economic context · Saite temple patronage
Supports institutional policy.
relationship Saite Dynasty 26 state — involved or associated with — Amasis-era regulation, temple patronage and Mediterranean relationships
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple economic context · Saite temple patronage
Supports institutional policy.
date assertion Amasis-era regulation, temple patronage and Mediterranean relationships — date assertion
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple economic context · Saite temple patronage
Supports institutional policy.
relationship Amasis-era regulation, temple patronage and Mediterranean relationships — occurred at or involved — Sais
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple economic context · Saite temple patronage
Supports institutional policy.
relationship Amasis-era regulation, temple patronage and Mediterranean relationships — occurred at or involved — Naukratis
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple economic context · Saite temple patronage
Supports institutional policy.
event Amasis-era regulation, temple patronage and Mediterranean relationships
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple economic context · Saite temple patronage
Supports institutional policy.
relationship Amasis — involved or associated with — Amasis-era regulation, temple patronage and Mediterranean relationships
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple economic context · Saite temple patronage
Supports institutional policy.
relationship Tanite Dynasty 21 kingship — involved or associated with — Tanite kingship and Theban Amun-domain coexistence
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple institutional context · Temple patronage and land networks
Supports institutional power beyond court chronology.
relationship Theban domain of Amun and high-priestly government — involved or associated with — Tanite kingship and Theban Amun-domain coexistence
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple institutional context · Temple patronage and land networks
Supports institutional power beyond court chronology.
relationship Tanite kingship and Theban Amun-domain coexistence — occurred at or involved — Tanis
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple institutional context · Temple patronage and land networks
Supports institutional power beyond court chronology.
relationship Tanite kingship and Theban Amun-domain coexistence — occurred at or involved — Karnak
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple institutional context · Temple patronage and land networks
Supports institutional power beyond court chronology.
date assertion Tanite kingship and Theban Amun-domain coexistence — date assertion
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple institutional context · Temple patronage and land networks
Supports institutional power beyond court chronology.
event Tanite kingship and Theban Amun-domain coexistence
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple institutional context · Temple patronage and land networks
Supports institutional power beyond court chronology.
relationship Psusennes I — involved or associated with — Tanite kingship and Theban Amun-domain coexistence
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple institutional context · Temple patronage and land networks
Supports institutional power beyond court chronology.
relationship Tanite kingship and Theban Amun-domain coexistence — occurred at or involved — Thebes
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides temple institutional context · Temple patronage and land networks
Supports institutional power beyond court chronology.
property assignment Temple estates and patronage networks — classified as — Temple institutional power
Evidence confidence: high
supports · supports assignment · Relevant evidence and interpretation
Supports analytical assignment.
claim Egyptian religion changed through cult centres, syncretisms, royal theology, funerary texts, temple institutions and domestic practice rather than remaining a static list of gods.
Evidence confidence: near certain
supports · supports claim · Temple institutions
Supports the claim and its qualifications.
date assertion Temple estates and patronage networks — date assertion
Evidence confidence: high
supports · supports entity · Relevant discussion or corpus description
Supports the entity and its interpretive limits.
entity Temple estates and patronage networks
Evidence confidence: high
supports · supports entity · Relevant discussion or corpus description
Supports the entity and its interpretive limits.
causal hypothesis Imperial reach, revenue and temple institutions
Evidence confidence: moderate
supports · supports institutional mechanism · Temple land and patronage
Supports resource networks.
relationship Temple estates and patronage networks — operated through — Karnak
Evidence confidence: high
supports · supports relationship · Temple estates and donations
Supports the relationship and its qualifications.
entity Karnak
Evidence confidence: high
supports · supports site history · Site or regional discussion
Supports the place, phase and interpretive caution.
date assertion Karnak — date assertion
Evidence confidence: high
supports · supports site history · Site or regional discussion
Supports the place, phase and interpretive caution.
causal hypothesis Saite consolidation through ports, military and temple networks
Evidence confidence: high
supports · supports temple mechanism · Saite patronage
Supports local institutional integration.