The Tepi Shemu Feast

A Tool for Testing Chronologies of Dynasty 21 to 25

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12955833
AutoresRita Gautschy (0000-0002-5470-8720, University of Basel, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume8
Fascículo2
Páginas81-114
Data de publicação2015-12-11
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Egyptian History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1874-1657 • E-ISSN: 1874-1665
EditoraBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/18741665-12340024
OpenAlexW2225247130
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas10

Due to the lack of a reliable king list and secure reign lengths, some freedom still exists to rearrange and re-date Egyptian kings of Dynasties 21 to 25. In recent articles, Ad Thijs as well as Michael Bányai have elaborated alternative chronologies for large parts of the Egyptian Third Intermediate Period. Various suggested chronologies will be discussed in this article, taking into account the Karnak Priestly Annals, the Nile Level Records, the Chronicle of Prince Osorkon, Assyrian and Biblical texts referring to Egypt or Nubia, and astronomical data. The main focus rests on the astronomical data and the basic idea that it seems unlikely that priestly inductions during the Tepi Shemu feast took place on miscellaneous lunar days in different years. A tentative reconstruction of the course of events of the Tepi Shemu feast is proposed

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