Eradicating Corruption in Ancient Egypt
Title: History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 5 (of 12)
Author: Gaston Maspero
Publisher: Project Gutenberg
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Started reading: 17 March 2024
ERADICATING CORRUPTION IN ANCIENT EGYPT
Harmhabî, who was continually looking for opportunities to put down injustice and to punish deceit, at length decided to promulgate a very severe edict against the magistrates and the double-dealing officials: any of them who was found to have neglected his duty was to have his nose cut off, and was to be sent into perpetual exile to Zalu, on the eastern frontier.
His commands, faithfully carried out, soon produced a salutary effect, and as he would on no account relax the severity of the sentence, exactions were no longer heard of, to the advantage of the revenue of the State.
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