Head of the King's People

The head of the king people was an ancient Egyptian title whose meaning in research is controversial. The title is only attested in the Old Kingdom . Officials of the provincial administration often carry the title. Outside of the title, the royal people appear in only two texts. The inscriptions in the tomb of Metjen mention that they sold 200 Aruras of land. In a Koptos decree they are referred to as belonging to the production house (per-schena). Wolfgang Helck suspected that they were free farmers because they could sell land. Petra Andrassy sees them as peasants who have been withdrawn from their old villages and then settled elsewhere and are therefore only subject to the king and no longer to the old village community.

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang Helck : Investigations into the official titles of the Egyptian Old Kingdom. (= Egyptological research. No. 18, ISSN 0933-338X ), Augustin, Glückstadt and others. 1954, p. 81, n.26.
↑ Petra Andrássy: Investigations into the Egyptian state of the Old Kingdom and its institutions (= Internet contributions to Egyptology and Sudan archeology. Vol. XI). London / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-1-906137-08-3 , p. 108.

[1] Wolfgang Helck : Investigations into the official titles of the Egyptian Old Kingdom. (= Egyptological research. No. 18, ISSN 0933-338X ), Augustin, Glückstadt and others. 1954, p. 81, n.26.

[2] Petra Andrássy: Investigations into the Egyptian state of the Old Kingdom and its institutions (= Internet contributions to Egyptology and Sudan archeology. Vol. XI). London / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-1-906137-08-3 , p. 108.