Nemeh in Pharaonic Egypt: ‘Free’ or ‘Miserable’? A Case Study of Historical Semantics

Autor:	Ella Karev
Jazyk:	German<br />English
Rok vydání:	2023
Předmět:	slavery in ancient Egypt conceptualized freedom semantic range historical semantics semasiology semantic overlap History (General) and history of Europe
Zdroj:	Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, Vol 34, Iss 2 (2023)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1016-765X 2707-966X
DOI:	10.25365/oezg-2023-34-2-4
Popis:	This case study of historical semantics examines an ancient Egyptian term related to dependency and dependent labour, ‘nemeh’, along with its varied (and seemingly paradoxical) proposed translations, ranging from ‘orphan’ to ‘citizen’, from ‘deprived person’ to ‘free man’. This contribution considers nemeh through historical semantics, investigating the shared thematic background among concepts and lexical meanings which appear contradictory to modern historians and philologists – but were not so in their original social context.
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