Nicolas Tenorio Maigler High Civil Servants in the Ancient Egypt Administration

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High civil servants in theAncient Egyptian

administration

A territory of that enormous dimensions

must be rigidly centralized across a civil

servant´s network that they will take charge

trying that it was kept close, so much to

economic as social level. The vizires were

the highest civil servants, one lived in thenorth, in Heliopolis, and other one in the

South. Below them, a governor´s network

of nomos and counts. In addition there

existed others that were fulfilling the

messenger´s functions, and were taking

charge supporting the cohesion with the

rest of nomos. The civil servants were

monitoring and collecting the public estate,they belonged to the privileged class.

The public administration in Ancient Egypt

The administration in the Ancient

Egypt was centralized in the capital,

properly in the royal palace, and every

nomo or province had simultaneously

his own administration like the central

model, in such a way that Egypt was

presenting a plurality strongly

penetrated by a sense of transcendent

unit.

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To build the whole administrative centralized device cost more than two centuries to

the kings of the first two dynasties, and in the third one, with Djeser, the monarchy

achieves the unification of the institutions of the kingdom and the political evolution

comes out of the religious plane: the centralization of the power, increasingly

accentuated, expresses with the adoption of Ra's worship as royal worship. We find in

Egypt two administrative slopes: The civilian and that of the royal worship.

Almost all the prominent figures who integrate the civil administration were

taking part also of the royal worship in an admirable theocracy




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The Vizir

Only the Foreign Minister or Vizir,

the chief of the administration, can be

named out of the civil servants' scale.

This post can be occupied by a

relative very near to the Pharaoh or

by a high priest of Heliópolis. The

Foreign Minister, under whose

authority there were created new civil

servants (chancellor of the cultures, of

the caravans, etc.) it was steadying

itself as the chief of all the things, the

" owner of the stamp of all the

documents ". His power were those of

a chief of government. Under his highdirection the services were organized:

the works of the king, the

administration of the finance, that of

the domain, that of the waters, the

customs, the intendency of the army

and especially the service of taxes on

which it was resting the whole

administrative building.

Priests and high civil

servants of the civil

and military

administration:

The divine theory of the power spreads of

the king to the government. The king

identified with Ra, places each of the

diverse aspects of his power under the

authority of a special god. Thot presides at

the Law and it will take the Foreign

Minister as a great priest to the chief of the

administration. The Justice places underthe patronage of the goddess Maat, whose

worship entrusts to the judges. Sheshat,

goddess of the writing and of the

administration (and also of the calendar

and of the astronomy), receives high civil

servants as priests for his worship.

The administration of the royal worship

spread considerably with the growth of the

pharaonic power. The funeral worship, Of

national scope, he enjoyed complete

autonomy. Him there were destined fields

and vineyards that were constituting

foundations provided with own personality, which were doing the paper of children's

homes, as for example the " House of

Eternity ", to which there was

corresponding the administration of the

funeral revenues granted by the king to his

ancient civil servants.




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The civil administration was under a " fixed

and intangible rule ", the administrative

hierarchy, which was respected by all, even

for the same Pharaoh. He might not even

deliver, discharges administrative functionsto a favourite; the Law dictated by him

itself it one prevents and forces him to

respect the army register. The new civil

servant will begin, necessarily, for the

simplest post of the administrative

hierarchy, and every ascent that attributes

to him a new power needs a new decree.

The king only will be able to choose his

more high civil servants, his immediate

collaborators, between whom they possess

this long leaf of services; general managers

of the big departments of the

Administration, members of the Advice of

the Ten or Chiefs of the Secrets, which

they form as a species of advice deprived

about the royal person

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Done by Nicolás Tenorio Maigler

Sources:

http://www.nuevaacropolismalaga.org/archives/la_administracion_en_el_antiguo_egipto000181.php

http://mural.uv.es/roaljo/LA%20SOCIEDAD%20EGIPCIAweb.htm

Withouth the high civil servants in the Ancient Egyptian

administration

it would be impossible to explain the long life of the Ancient Egypt

- of more than 4000 years - if we did not bear in mind the degree of

development reached by his public Administration.

Administration that used as example for other Empires, but

without never reaching the brilliance and the mysticism of the

E tian Em ire.







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