2025-01-242025-01-242019Sánchez Casado, R. (2019). Changes and developments in the title ḥm-k3 from the Old to the Middle Kingdom. En Tradition and Transformation in Ancient Egypt (pp. 137-146). Austria: Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.978-3-7001-8005-0https://hdl.handle.net/11441/167444Thas paper deals with some of the most unmistakable changes and developments that the title Hm-kA underwent between the OK and the MK. The Hm-kA, as one of the most representative officiants of the funerary cult, has a substancial presence in the sources. These sources are far more abundant in the OK than in the MK, and the way in that these documents present the Hm-kA denotes that the title experienced a development that altered some of its features with respect to previous periods. In this paper, I will focus on three aspects of this title: the change in the spelling of the title in regard to the position of the arms (signs D32 and D28), which could be more than a mere change in the graphic conventions; the reduction in the number of offciants and the disappearance of the hierarchical position as a proof of the profound change in the structure and organisation of the office; and the loss op prominence in the representations of these officiants, which should be understood as a reflection of the other transformations tha affects the title structure, function and conception.application/pdf10 p.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess10.2307/j.ctvdf0j5w.12