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Book: High Culture and Experience in Ancient Egypt

Chapter: Elite experience

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.21393

Blurb:

This chapter draws together some threads of argument, discussing movement, travel, and presence, with the aim of broadening the interpretations offered. In this respect, two fundamental contexts and meanings for the category of experience are offered. The significance of experience is brought into focus by the first-person form of most biographical inscriptions, device which is paralleled in many Egyptian literary texts.

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