First Intermediate Period

Notes on Legal Vocabulary (Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period)

Notes on Legal Vocabulary (Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period)

In approaching the study of sAb, I raised the issue of the purport of this title and proposed a hypothesis for its translation (Vande Walle 2011) which differs from the usual notion of judge. In doing so, I collected some data on terminology concerning the act of judging and of the actors revolving around its implementation, which are the subject of this work. [more…]