Studies on the ancient Egyptian administrative system(s) are usually based on analysis of the institutions and officials attached to them. The present paper focuses on the social settings of the four Middle Kingdom / Second Intermediate Period highest ranking officials, i.e., treasurers. Starting with the traditional methodological approach, which focuses on collecting the prosopographic data, this paper further addresses the implementation of Social Network Analysis (SNA) tools for analyzing the obtained material. SNA is used to study people, or groups of people (nodes), linked together through social interaction, and relations or links between them (edges). SNA exemplifies various types of interaction through networks and analyzes them. By applying SNA methodology for studying the networks of the selected treasurers, it is possible to reconstruct more precisely their social setting (both private and institutional) and interrelations, which complement the traditional approach, but also provide new possibilities for research into ancient Egyptian administration.

对古埃及行政系统的研究通常基于对机构和与之相关的官员的分析。本文着重于四位中王国/第二中期最高级别官员，即司库的社会环境。从传统的方法学方法开始，该方法侧重于收集前射影像数据，本文进一步介绍了用于分析获得的材料的社交网络分析（SNA）工具的实现。SNA用于研究通过社交互动以及人与人之间的关系或联系（边缘）而链接在一起的人或人（节点）。国民账户体系通过网络举例说明各种类型的交互并进行分析。通过将SNA方法论用于研究选定财务主管的网络，可以更精确地重建其社会环境（包括私人和机构）和相互关系，这是对传统方法的补充，但也为研究古埃及政府提供了新的可能性。