Abstract
Grain storage practices enable us to estimate better the shifting limits of state power. Furthermore, any grain management tended to reproduce the power asymmetries and economic inequalities, even though, it must have necessarily involve the sharing as well.
Therefore, it is essential to pay attention to who was contributing to and withdrawing from different types of granaries - how the grain was collected, who had the access to it and how it was reallocated1. These are exactly the questions I would like to focus in my paper.
My research concerns the period between the Old and the Middle Kingdom and it is based on published written sources recording the persons related to the grain flow. Besides determining who was involved in grain transaction, I also pay attention to the diachronic trends, as well as to the variety of contexts in which contributing and withdrawing persons appear.