The swnt Documents until The New Kingdom: Form, Formulae, and Function

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Lecturer, Faculty of Archaeology, Fayoum University (EGYPT)

2 Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Lecturer, Ain Shams Univers(EGYPT)

Abstract


This paper seeks to study the swnt documents (form, formulae, and function) and its role in the legal practice in the Egyptian society, in addition to an inventory of the administration structure of these documentsThis study depend on collection of swnt document which dating to the middle kingdom until the new kingdom.

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