Field writer (sS AHwt) and his job role Until the end of the 18th Dynasty

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faculty of Arts alexandria university(Egypt)

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The sS AHwt is a title of ancient Egyptian titles of a special nature related to the economy of the state and its administrative affairs, like the rest of the titles that the number of ancient Egyptian, in his texts if he defined himself a manifestation of his functions, which are sometimes multiple, including the President and secondary, , Has collected the sS AHwt title and means "field writer" between those two cases.
Although the text of the title of the field clerk did not mention the nature of his job in detail, even when referring to the text of the coffins, although the mere mention of the title of a kind of discrimination, the context of the title and was linked to specific signs of God Hwty is the following: sS AHwt ran + Hwty, which means "field clerk at the hands of Thus, the study will be limited to the mundane texts that can be traced through both personal and administrative until the end of the title in the eighteenth family, to determine the nature of the title through the titles that appeared in it, as well as the nature of the administrative texts themselves.


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