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Romanova O.O. The priests in social structure of Egypt during Old Kingdom.- Manuscript.

A thesis submitted for a Candidate of History with the specialization 07.00.02. - Universal History.- A. Krymsky Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2000.

The present thesis considers the position of Egyptian priests in social and administrative structure of Old Kingdom. At the base of authentic Egyptian sources which are titles of state officers and the other inscriptions from private tombs, royal decrees and papyri from Abu-sir temple of the King Neferirkare, the status of priesthood in Egyptian state is investigated in the thesis. The sources support the idea, that Egyptian priest was the state officer, priestly service was a state service. The priests acted as delegates of King in the branch of cult. Priests were the part of government. Priestly service united with other kinds of state service. Priests held divers administrative posts. They were high state magistrates as well as the officers of middle level or clerks in various departments of government. The tendency of rising of the number of priestly titles together with increasing of position of the person in administrative system is observed. Priestly titles in such course not ever were just the epithets. There was correlation between some kind of priestly titles of a person and sphere of his occupation in Old Kingdom Egypt. Priestly titles are proved to be present in the lists of titles of high rank officials as well as the representatives of professional elite or chiefs of some kind of works.

Process of formation the Egyptian priests as a social group has been taking place during Old Kingdom. Consolidation of Egyptian priests proceeded on the base of officials dealing with the sphere of cult. The process did not complete then, because the priests of Old Kingdom did not consist themselves as a real united social group.

The social status of five categories of priests (sem-priest, cherheb (lector-priest), prophet, wab-priest (purificator), ka-priest) has been analyzed in the thesis. Every priesthood category noted above had its own term of beginning and origin, position in administrative structure. The rank of sem-priest was the higher priestly rank in Old Kingdom because of its connection with Pharaoh. The titles of sem-priests united with titles of the highest officials.

The second rank supposes to be the lector-priest. The category of lector-priests included three kinds of priests, distinguishing with their social status: the cherhebs-the higher state magistrates and relatives of the king, cherhebs serving in royal funerary cult temples as well as lector-priests serving in tombs of private persons. The lector-priests holding the higher social status were the first to come into being. They became state officers at the beginning of Old Kingdom. The lector-priests serving in temples and holding middle social position have consolidated in the second part of Old Kingdom. Process of formation of lector-priests serving in private tombs seems to have finished in The First Intermediate Period when the role of personality rose.

The category of prophets is to considered as a biggest group of priests in Old Kingdom. Prophets belonged to the middle class of Egyptian society. They were the basis of temple staff of both the royal funerary cult temples and divine cult temples. The main part of prophets was connected with royal cult in pyramidal temples.

According to data of documents from Old Kingdom wab-priests belonged to the lower ranks of priests which served in royal cult temples.

During the period of Old Kingdom the process of consolidation of ka-priests has taken part. Ka-priests originated from the proper people of the masters of tombs, served in tombs of private persons. In Old Kingdom ka-priests are proved not to belong to state officers.

The organization of the personnel of temples in Old Kingdom is investigated in the dissertation. The cult of King was prominent cult of religious system in Old Kingdom. The corporation of royal cult temple had come into being before the corporation of local deity temple arose. The dominating of royal priests was feature of priests that epoch. Four priesthood categories, but ka-priests, were connected with cult of King in Old Kingdom.

Key words: Social structure, priesthood, sem-priests, cherhebs, prophets, purificators, ka-priests.

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