See also: Vizier

The vizier , Tjaty as an Egyptian, indicates, anachronistic with the Vizier to advise by analogy or minister near the Moslem leaders, the first magistrate after the Pharaon, in the ancient Egypt. This station, whose name was probably created at the time of the Pharaon Snéfrou for his son Néfermaât, was defined as that which is the will of the Master, the ears and the eyes of the king .

With the Ancient Empire, with, the title of the vizier was tayty-sab-tjaty .

Functions

With the head of a true administration we know charge with the vizier thanks to the autobiographical texts that certain characters of left in their tombs, such Rekhmirê, which exerted this function under the reigns of Thoutmosis {{III}} and of its successor Amenhotep {{II}}.

Its functions were:

• Responsible for the executive;
• Control of the administration;
• Responsible for accountancy;
• Responsible for filing;
• Control of the police force and transport;
• Guarantor of Maât (goddess of the order) and person in charge of justice.

Each day it submitted to the king a report on the State of the Two Grounds in the presence of the Trésorier, another magistrate whose row in the administration of the country was equivalent. The badges of the vizier were:

• the behavior shenep ;
• the stick aba ;
• forty rollers of the laws.

It was assisted of two direct assistants as well as personal scribes. It directed an office made up of a double team of appointed officials the large ones of the Ten of High-Egypt .

On the Old and the Average Empire, this load fell on only one qualified person of friendly single of the king and who controlled the Double House, administration which gathered the governorship of the Two Grounds of Egypt. From the Nouvel Empire the load is duplicated and the country counted from now on two viziers: for north (Low-Egypt) and for the south (High-Egypt).

Principal viziers of ancient Egypt