La estela de Rediukhnum de Dendera y la reorganización administrativa del Estado egipcio a finales del III milenio a.C.

Abstract

The process of the administrative reorganization which resulted in the formation of the Egyptian state of the Middle Kingdom took place at the beginning of the 11th Dynasty. The stela of Rediukhnum of Dendera is one of the most important epigraphic resources available which reflects on this process. Through philological and paleographical research on the text, an analysis of the titles of Rediukhnum, and a comparative survey with other contemporary or closely dated resources, a date for the stela can be proposed. In addition, the administrative measures which these early Theban kings took in the southernmost provinces of Upper Egypt at the end of the First Intermediate Period can be deduced.