Ancient Egyptian Administration

1111 Pages·2013·7.3 MB·English

by  Juan Carlos Moreno García

Ancient Egyptian Administration
Handbook of Oriental Studies
Handbuch der Orientalistik
Section 1, Ancient Near East
Editor-in-Chief
W.H. van Soldt (Leiden)
Editors
G. Beckman (Ann Arbor)
C. Leitz (Tübingen)
P. Michalowski (Ann Arbor)
P. Miglus (Heidelberg)
VOLUME 104
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Ancient Egyptian Administration
Edited by
Juan Carlos Moreno García
LEidEN • BOSTON
2013
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data
Ancient Egyptian administration / edited by Juan Carlos Moreno García.
pages cm. — (Handbook of oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section 1, ancient
Near East, iSSN 0169-9423 ; v 104)
iSBN 978-90-04-24952-3 (hardback : alk. paper)
1. Egypt—Politics and government—To 332 B.C. 2. Bureaucracy—Egypt—History. i. Moreno
García, Juan Carlos, author, editor of compilation.
dT85.A63 2013
932’.01—dc23
2012049894
iSSN 0169-9423
iSBN 978-90-04-24952-3 (hardback)
iSBN 978-90-04-25008-6 (e-book)
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CONTENTS
The Study of Ancient Egyptian Administration ........................... 1
Juan Carlos Moreno García
The Organisation of a Nascent State: Egypt until the
Beginning of the 4th dynasty ..................................................... 19
Eva-Maria Engel
The Central Administration of the Resources in the
Old Kingdom: departments, Treasuries, Granaries and
Work Centers ................................................................................. 41
Hratch Papazian
The Territorial Administration of the Kingdom in the
3rd Millennium .............................................................................. 85
Juan Carlos Moreno García
Kings, Viziers, and Courtiers: Executive Power in the Third
Millennium B.C. ............................................................................ 153
Miroslav Bárta
The Administration of the Royal Funerary Complexes .............. 177
Hana Vymazalová
Balat, a Frontier Town and its Archive ......................................... 197
Laure Pantalacci
Setting a State Anew: The Central Administration from
the End of the Old Kingdom to the End of the
Middle Kingdom ........................................................................... 215
Wolfram Grajetzki
The Royal Command (wd̠-nsw): A Basic deed of
Executive Power ........................................................................... 259
Pascal Vernus
viii contents
Nomarchs and Local Potentates: The Provincial Administration
in the Middle Kingdom ................................................................ 341
Harco Willems
The Organisation of the Pharaonic Army (Old to
New Kingdom) .............................................................................. 393
Anthony Spalinger
Categorisation, Classification, and Social Reality: Administrative
Control and interaction with the Population .......................... 479
Katalin Anna Kóthay
Crisis and Restructuring of the State: From the Second
intermediate Period to the Advent of the Ramesses .............. 521
JJ Shirley
The Rising Power of the House of Amun in the New
Kingdom ......................................................................................... 607
Ben Haring
Coping with the Army: The Military and the State in the
New Kingdom ................................................................................ 639
Andrea M. Gnirs
The Administration of institutional Agriculture in the
New Kingdom ................................................................................ 719
Sally L.D. Katary
A Bureaucratic Challenge? Archaeology and Administration
in a desert Environment (Second Millennium B.C.E.) .......... 785
John Coleman Darnell
The Ramesside State .......................................................................... 831
Pierre Grandet
Administration of the deserts and Oases: First
Millennium B.C.E. ......................................................................... 901
David Klotz
contents ix
From Conquered to Conqueror: The Organization of Nubia
in the New Kingdom and the Kushite Administration
of Egypt ........................................................................................... 911
Robert Morkot
The Saite Period: The Emergence of a Mediterranean Power ...... 965
Damien Agut-Labordère
The ‘Other’ Administration: Patronage, Factions, and
informal Networks of Power in Ancient Egypt ....................... 1029
Juan Carlos Moreno García
index .................................................................................................... 1067
Kings and Queens ......................................................................... 1067
divinities ......................................................................................... 1070
individuals ...................................................................................... 1071
Toponyms ....................................................................................... 1078
Egyptian Words and Selected Titles .......................................... 1085
Thematic index .............................................................................. 1090