Yes Kat, but the Priests would have benefited from larger mortuary temples, greater staffing, more feast days, etc.

No one benefited from a honking big Pyramid tomb other then the dead King.

imho it was all about the Priesthood extracting actual power from the Pharaohs over many dynasties until the teeter-totter tipped, and after Akhenaton’s one desperate attempt to grab power back, the Pharaohs playing the power sharing game with the temples.

I could well be guilty of oversimplification, here, but how else to translate the Priesthoods went from being appointed by, and serving at the good will of, the King, to hereditary.

Jammer