NMC101H1 Lecture Notes - Palermo Stone, Turin King List, Manetho

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18 Sep 2012

School

UTSG

Department

Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations

Course

NMC101H1

Professor

M.A.Pouls- Wegner

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September 13, 2011: inscriptional evidence: things inscribed with information that we find historically important. Temples (decorations; objects dedicated to the temple, commemorate historical events (ex, narmer"s palette)) Texts: papyri and ostraca (written in ink on coptic, potsherds or small pieces of stone) Archives (shadowy category, most did not survive) Artifacts (funerary stele, votive palettes, maceheads, small labels) Cannot represent the totality of egyptian population. Not written specifically to inform future generations. Egyptians had a very literal concept of writing, they write because they want to actualize something very subjective, served a function: other written sources: Manetho: egyptian priest sent to write the history of egypt by the greek during ptolemaic times, but most of his work did not survive) Divided ancient egypt into dynasties according to location of principal royal residence or kinship, listed out the reignal lengths, sum of each dynasty, provided the greek names. Like to connect things, also recorded oral histories inaccurate information about older history.

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