Turin King List
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Turin Royal Canon
This
hieratic text dates to Ramesses II times. It
mentions the names of all Egyptian rulers preceded by the register of gods
that, as it was believed, ruled over Egypt before Pharaohs era. The
document, originally complete, fell into about 300 pieces. In this state it
was discovered in one of the tombs in Thebes and then bought by an Italian
collector
Bernardino
Drovetti in the 19th century. It continuously undergoes destruction and
at present makes up only a fragment of papyrus examined by
J.F.
Champollion and Gustavus Seyffarth in 1825.
The
papyrus gives the names of monarchs in some cases grouping them together and
giving lengths of regency for some of these groups, generally corresponding
to
Manetho’s Dynasties. Moreover it shows in years,
months and days duration of ruling for individual kings. It also includes
names of ephemeral rulers or those ruling over small territories and as such
– barely known nowadays, usually unmentioned in other sources. The list
included the Hyksos rulers (often left out of other King Lists), although
they were not given cartouches, and a hieroglyphic sign was added to
indicate that they were foreigners. |
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