Magnates of the Southern Ten

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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