The system of relations of the governors of Balat

Absztrakt

The topic of this paper is the inner and outer relations of the governors in Balat at the end of the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt at the Western Oases Frontier. The inner relations refer to the governors' connections in the oasis of Dakhla itself and to other oases of the area as well as to the royal residence of Memphis in the Nile Valley. The outer relations were directed towards foreign lands reachable via the desert roads of the Sahara leaving from Dakhla. The article also discusses what foreign lands or countries these could have been. Similarly, it aims to touch upon the duties and tasks that would have been carried out by the governors in their complex network of relations inasmuch as it is possible to be reconstructed from the Balat archives and other written or archaeological sources.