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The purpose of this book is to study a group of the highest civil administrative titles of the Old Kingdom from the standpoint of the memphite region. Previous studies of the administration of this period have tended to concentrate on the nature and functions of the lower-ranking officials rather than the higher; there are no works devoted principally to such offices as that of the Vizier or Overseer of Works in the Old Kingdom. The desire to fill this gap has resulted in the present work. The term 'memphite' is used to refer to the central administration of the period based in the capital city of Memphis; this is to be contrasted with the provincial administration which developed in the course of the Old Kingdom. The officials whose monuments provide the bulk of the material used in this study were all buried in what may be termed the cemeteries of Memphis, comprising principally the sites of Giza and Saqqara, and to a lesser extent Meydum, Dahshur and Abu Roash. The selected titles encompass five important areas of the administration of the Old Kingdom: the legal system, the scribal bureaucracy, the organisation of labour and of the granaries and treasuries. To these must be adde

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Author

Professor Nigel Strudwick

Publisher

Kegan Paul International

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780710301079

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Education