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nomarch

(ˈnɒmɑːk)
n
1. (Historical Terms) the head of an ancient Egyptian nome
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the senior administrator in a Greek nomarchy
[C17: from Greek nomarkhēs]
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The Nomarchs of the Hare Nome and Early Middle Kingdom History.
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As a result, the old system of hereditary nomarchs was destroyed and replaced by a bureaucratic machinery, the operators of which owed their allegiance to the king in his residence".
Accounting and redistribution: the place and mortuary cult in the Middle Kingdom, ancient Egypt
Doxey's paper considers the role of the nomarchs as rulers and how the position of these officials is reflected in the layout of provincial necropoleis.
Fourth Symposium on Egyptian Royal Ideology: Egyptian Royal Residences
This book reconstructs the transmission history of a group of ancient Egyptian funerary texts, autobiographical inscriptions, titles, and epithets first attested in the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom tomb chapels of the nomarchs of Siut.
Siut-Theben: Zur Wertschatzung von Traditionen im alten Agypten. (Reviews of Books)

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