Research Project funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain (PID2022-142974NA-I00) and the University of Seville (VIIPPIT-2023-II.5). The project focuses on the study of the patronage interconnections in the frame of Old Kingdom funerary cult.
The objective of Invisible Networks Project is to approach the study of the funerary cult of the Egyptian Old Kingdom from an eminently social point of view, analysing who the officiants of these cults were, what their socio-economic status was and what relationships of interdependence and patronage were established between these officiants and the patrons they served. The fundamental interest will be to understand the impact that the establishment and management of the funerary cult had on the people who maintained it.
The project is based on the hypothesis that the funerary cult of the Old Kingdom constituted a factor of social structuring and a network of economic redistribution that generated interdependent relationships among its members. We want to know the individual and social identity of the officiants of the Old Kingdom funerary ritual and to analyse the personal, social and professional networks in which these agents were inserted.