Duties of the Vizier

Installation of the Vizier, tomb of Rekhmire

Anonymous / royal administrative tradition, inscribed in the tomb of the vizier Rekhmire · c. 1450s BC · Thebes (Egypt) · administrative

Good government depends on a vizier who hears every petitioner in person, favors no friend over a stranger, and answers to the king alone, a job description precise enough to function as a manual for the office itself.