Hedvig Győry: Mélanges offerts a Edith Varga „Le lotus qui sort de terre” (Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts Supplément 1. Budapest, 2001)
KATALIN ANNA KÓTHAY: Houses and households at Kahun: Bureaucratic and Domestic Aspects of Social Organization During the Middle Kingdom
new dependents, etc. - IV. 1.) required extensions (iw). If no change occurred no new register was drawn up, but an oath was entered into the relevant document in order to confirm that the official reckoning up had been accomplished. Thus, an wpwt-list appears to have been drawn up by the institution to which the registered person was attached as a functionary. The numbers occurring after the names of persons heading the lists are seen as indicating regularity in keeping these records. 47 Nevertheless not every individual to whom a list was assigned held such registration number. The figure 100 occurs following Hori's name in two of his lists (1.4 verso and 1.5), whilst Khakaura-sneferu is given the number 947. The lists of Hori's son Sneferu do not contain any numeral, however (1.3). This can be paralleled with the fact that Sneferu is not given any title in the register. At the place, where we would expect the indication of his status, a phrase concerning his father runs: it.fhr snwt nt dim\w srwd (w r rt mhtt ?)], 'his father being in the second of the train[ed troops (northern sector?)]'. I assume that these figures are not to be regarded as serial numbers of the registers, they rather seem to be associated with services: they might be held by adult males, who perfonned duties in state service. Since Sneferu was still minor, or at least had not entered into service yet, his name goes not followed by any number. The reference to his father's position presumably indicates that he was to take over his place. The oath was taken by every person enumerated in the list and referred to by the term hr in 1.5, and only from Khakaura-sneferu in IV. 1. In the first instance all the people were considered responsible. It is thus clear that the vvpwr-lists of Hori's family were registers of a unit referred to as hr, and consequently a household. 48 Khakaure-sneferu's list records a larger unit. On the evidence of the Hekanakhte Papers and Pap. Brooklyn 35.1446 Franke emphasizes that servants did not belong to a person's hr. 49 Thus Khakaura-sneferu's hr consisted in a conjugal family unit (father with two children), the carefully separated dependents evidently not belonging to it. Since the children were still minor, the lector priest apart, there was no liable adult in the family. It seems that the wpwt-hsts from Kahun were not registers attesting the occupants of individual houses, as compared with a New Kingdom document called 'Stato lîerlev, op. cit. (note 37), p. 50; Valbellc, op, cit. (note 17), p. 45. Sec above. Franke, op. cit. (note 3), pp. 231, 233 and 243.
