The Social Status of Field Female Workers in Thebes in light of some Scenes of Private Tombs until the End of the Late Period

A. Saad, Amr; M. Mohamed, Rasha; O. Ali, Nageh; A. Ahmed, Ibrahim

doi:10.21608/mfth.2023.296460

The Social Status of Field Female Workers in Thebes in light of some Scenes of Private Tombs until the End of the Late Period

Document Type : Original Article

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¹ Tourism Guidance Department- Faculty of Tourism and Hotels -Fayoum University

² Department of Egyptology -Faculty of Archeology-Fayoum University

10.21608/mfth.2023.296460

Abstract

The field of life for the ancient Egyptian was initially confined to collecting plants and picking wild fruits or hunting and hunting, and after that he began to sow grain and reap the harvest and live in a productive way. With drought, agriculture was the main economic resource and the most important thing that the ancient Egyptians worked with, and it is also considered the main source on which the civilization of ancient Egypt was based. The rise of the ancient Egyptian civilization, and one of its values that was inherited to the Egyptians is the participation of the woman with the man in his daily life, so we find her sharing the work with him, whether she is a wife, daughter, or a woman who practices a profession to gather her day’s sustenance, and the most important thing she participated in is the field work, as the agricultural professions are the most available professions Which does not need a craft or mastery of a specific workmanship with regard to work for women working in the field, just as the agricultural profession needs abundant labor of men and women for Egypt’s dependence on it as an important economic resource.

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