Theban Administration in the Late Middle Kingdom
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Alexander Ilin-Tomich Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Rozhdestvenka 12, Moscow, Russia
ilintomich@gmail.rus
Summary:
The survey of 210 Late Middle Kingdom sources attributable to Theban officials aims to define the highest offices of the local administration in order to describe local administrative structures, and to pinpoint the administrative titles that were predominantly used in the Theban administration, thus distancing it from the administration of the northern residence and other power centers of Late Middle Kingdom Egypt. The paper emphasizes the role of wḥmw “reporters” as top local officials at Thebes and in a number of other regions in the Late Middle Kingdom. The spellings of the word ḫnrt with 
in administrative titles is only characteristic of Upper Egypt. Among titles used predominantly in Theban and Upper Egyptian administration were ḫrp wsḫt “director of the broad court”, wr mḏw šmꜤw “chief of tens of Upper Egypt”, (sꜢb) rꜢ-nḫn “sab, mouth of Hierakonpolis”, smsw hꜢyt “elder of the portal”, ḥrj n tm “master of the tm”, sš n spꜢt “scribe of the nome”, jmj-ḫt sꜢ-prw “security official estate guard”, and nfw n pr-ḥḏ “treasury captain”.
About the author
Alexander Ilin-Tomich
Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Rozhdestvenka 12, Moscow, Russia
ilintomich@gmail.rus
© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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- Frontmatter
- Heinz Josef Thissen
- Landholding and Agriculture in Late Ramesside Theban Documents
- Theban Administration in the Late Middle Kingdom
- Sattjeni: Daughter, Wife and Mother of the Governors of Elephantine during the End of the Twelfth Dynasty
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- Hezi’s Autobiographical Inscription: Philological Study and Interpretation
- Illocution and Speaker Intent in Coptic: the Case of the ‘Autofocal’ Second Tenses
