vizier (Ancient Egypt)

File:RPM Ägypten 006.jpg, vizier and designer of Khufu's pyramid, at the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, Germany. His feet rest on columns of hieroglyphs, painted in yellow, red, brown, and black.]]

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The viziers were appointed by the pharaohs. The vizier's paramount duty was to supervise the running of the country, much like a prime minister. At times this included small details such as sampling the city's water supply.{{cite book|last=Goddard|first=J|title=Public Health Entomology|year=2012|publisher=CRC Press|location=Starkville}} All other lesser supervisors and officials, such as tax collectors and scribes, reported to the vizier. The judiciary was part of the civil administration, and the vizier also sat in the High Court. At any time, the pharaoh could exert his own control over any aspect of government, overriding the vizier's decisions. The vizier also supervised the security of the pharaoh and the palace by overseeing the comings and goings of palace visitors.{{Cite book|title=Ancient Egyptian administration|others=Moreno Garcia, Juan Carlos|isbn=9789004249523|location=Leiden, The Netherlands|oclc=849248179|year = 2013}} The viziers often acted as the pharaoh's seal bearer as well, and the vizier would record trade.[http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/egypt/government/vizier.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913094607/http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/egypt/government/vizier.htm|date=September 13, 2008}} From the Fifth Dynasty onwards, viziers, who by then were the highest civilian bureaucratic official, held supreme responsibility for the administration of the palace and government, including jurisdiction, scribes, state archives, central granaries, treasury, storage of surplus products and their redistribution, and supervision of building projects such as the royal pyramid. In the New Kingdom, there was a vizier for Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt each.Jane Bingham, Fiona Chandler, Jane Chisholm, Gill Harvey, Lisa Miles,Struan Reid, and Sam Taplin "The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of the Ancient World" page 80 {{Clarify|date=July 2010}}{{date missing}}

{{Main |Installation of the Vizier}}

According to the Installation of the Vizier, a New Kingdom document describing the office of the vizier, there were certain traits and behaviors that were required to be a vizier:

• Act by the law
• Judge fairly
• Do not act willfully or headstrong

• Vizier
• Shogun

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{{Commons category|Viziers of ancient Egypt}}

• [https://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/ancient-egypt-vizier.html Ancient Egyptian government and the role of viziers]
• [http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/administration/vizierate.htm The vizierate]
• [http://www.aldokkan.com/society/vizier.htm aldokkan.com]

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