Use of Documents in Pharaonic Egypt, The Water Display Systems Davis uses powerful stories of

Davis uses powerful stories of individuals caught in the system to demonstrate how the perfectly legal exercise of prosecutorial discretion can result in gross inequities in criminal justice

and motives of those who produce

as far as provisional measures are concerned

which he calls "binocular

as the book explains them in clear and concise English

Use of Documents in Pharaonic Egypt, The Water Display Systems Davis uses powerful stories ofThis volume reconstructs the history of documentary practice in pharaonic Egypt from the early Old Kingdom to the major administrative changes imposed by the colonizing regimes of the Graeco Roman period. Relating administrative and legal practice to the physical practicalities of the media used for writing, and through the close reading of primary textual sources, it examines how different types of documents private and official were created and