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The king lists of Manetho. According to legend, Manetho, an Egyptian priest from Sebennytos in the Delta, wrote Aegyptiaca, “The History of Egypt,” in the third century BC of the recently formed Ptolemaic Kingdom. Manetho (Greek: Μαvέθων) has been of great interest to historians and Egyptologists for many years, with Aegyptiaca aiding ...
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The king-list that Manetho had access to is unknown to us, but of the surviving king-lists, the one most similar to his is the Turin Royal Canon (or Turin Papyrus). The oldest source with which we can compare to Manetho are the Old Kingdom Annals (c. 2500-2200 BC).
The nine kings of Manetho’s Third Dynasty does not agree with the archaeological record, nor with the main New Kingdom king lists, which only support 4-5 kings reigning for less than 100 years, not the seemingly inflated total of 214 years of Africanus.
Manetho was an Egyptian historian and priest from Sebennytos, active during the third century BC and wrote Aegyptiaca – the History of Egypt. Manetho has long been of great interest to Egyptologists, and Aegyptiaca has helped establishing the chronology of the pharaohs.
King Lists. The king-list that Manetho had access to is unknown to us, but of the surviving king-lists, the one most similar to his is the Turin Royal Canon (or Turin Papyrus). The oldest source with which we can compare to Manetho are the Old Kingdom Annals (ca. 2500-2200 BCE).
Reconstructing Manetho's king list . This is an attempt to make sense of the garbled account that Josephus gives of Mantho’s Egyptian king list and to identify the kings he names with those recorded in Egyptian, Greek, Jewish, Phoenician and other historical texts or inscriptions.
The King List from the Temple of King Seti I (Seti himself stands at far left). DOWNLOADS This rare book of 134 pages contains beautifully printed drawings of all the cartouches which were known at the time of its publication, accompanied by the names in Greek preserved by Manetho which were believed to correspond to the original Egyptian forms ...