NMC101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Manetho
23 Jun 2016
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The sothic cycle but egyptian year only 360 + 5 days = 365 days . Calendar wandered through natural, solar year (slipping 1 day / 4 years) First day of calendar (1 akhet 1) coincided with heliacal rising of sothis every 1460 years! Sources for egyptian history (1) royaldocumentsegyptians date official documents according to rule of the king: : year count starts over with every new ruler (2) privatemonumentsandtexts e. g. Tomb autobiographies, such as weni (3) annals e. g. the palermo stone (4) king lists. Tables ofa) karnak (time thutmose iii, dyn. 18)b) abydos (time sety i, dyn. 19 20: royal canon of turin (time rameses ii, dyn. Duration of each reign (5) manetho (c. 305 285 bce) Egyptian priest and historian wrote in greek but could read. 30 (31) dynasties three kingdoms old, middle, new, 3 founders of egypt:(1) Contemporary dynasties during intermediate periods (e. g. 9/10 and early 11; 15,
