 Though Černý seems to think that the door-keepers might have served the role of bailiffs, A.G. McDowell, a prominent Egyptologist in the study of Deir el-Medina, speculates that the door-keepers' legal function was small, and that Aapehty only testified to them because they stood in a public part of the worksite.He swore under oath the alleged cases of debauchery, including an instance in which Aapehty himself took part.All the cases of debauchery were with married women, aside from one daughter, who was also the woman Aapehty debauched.