Magnates of the Southern Ten was a title disciplined by certain governors of the provinces of Upper Egypt, these were normally nomarchs, genetic princes or nobles of ancient nome or provincial kin, who were entrusted with preserving order and constancy in their homelands on behalf of the opinion pharaohs. During the Ptolemaic Period (304-30 B.C.E.), the Magnates of the South Ten and other Egyptian legal organizations were great to the light populations, as the Greeks set laws for themselves and their allies and reserved the nomes to maintain traditional forms for the Egyptian people. Mitry attended during the 5th Dynasty as a provincial administrator of the royal territories. He was too a counselor and judge, a situation called the Magnates of the Southern Ten. found in his tomb at Saqqara, was 11 wooden statues, which were extremely rare in ancient Egypt. Some of these were life-sized portraitures of himself and his wife.
More about the Magnates of the Southern Ten:
Breasted (J. H.), A History of Egypt, Cambridge University Press, 1905, PP. 165, 166.
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More about the Magnates of the Southern Ten:
Breasted (J. H.), A History of Egypt, Cambridge University Press, 1905, PP. 165, 166.
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