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From Manetho's Twelfth Dynasty and the Standard Chronology

Table 1
Alternative Chronologies of the Twelfth Dynasty

 

 

King name

 

Parker[1]

 

Beckerath[2]

 

Krauss[3]

 

Turin Canon[4]

Highest

Year Mark[5]

 

Amenemhe I

 

 

1991-1962

 

1976-1947

 

1938-1908

 

[X]9

 

30

Senwosre I

 

1971-1928

1956-1911/10

1918-1875

45

44

Amenemhe II

 

1929-1895

1914-1879/76

1876-1842

10 + or 30 +  [X]

35

Senwosre II

 

1897-1879

1882-1872

1844-1837

19

 6

Senwosre III

 

1878-1843

1872-1853/52

1836-1818

30 + [X]

19/30/33/39[6]

Amenemhe III

 

1842-1797

1853-1806/05

1818-1770

40 + [X]

45

Amenemhe IV

 

1798-1790

1807/06-1798/97

1770-1760

9 yrs, 3 mos., 27 dys

 6

Sebeknofru

 

1789-1786

1798/97-1794/93

1760-1756

3 yrs, 10 mos. 24 dys.

 

Duration in years

206

183

183

213 yrs, 1 mo. 16 dys.[7]

 

 

 



[1] Richard A. Parker, The Calendars of Ancient Egypt, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, No. 26, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950), 69.

[2] Jürgen von Becherath, Chronologie Des Pharaonischen Äegypten, MAS 46 (Mainzam Rhein: von Zabern 1997), 134.

[3] Rolf Kraus, Sothis und Mondaten. Hilderscheimer Äegyptologische Beitrage 20 (Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildeshein, 1985), 207ff.

[4] Gardiner, Egypt of the Pharaohs, (Oxford University Press, Oxford 1961), 438.

[5] Gardiner, 438.

[6] These are alternative high-year marks based on different evidentiary interpretations.

[7] Duration given in Turin Canon. There appear to be months and days belonging to earlier kings that don’t appear or aren’t preserved in the earlier king reigns.

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