{"title":"The Sixth Heracleopolitan King Merikare Khety","authors":"A. Demidchik","doi":"10.1163/18741665-12340028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18741665-12340028","url":null,"abstract":"The history of the Heracleopolitan royal “House of Khety,” comprising Manethonian Dynasties IX and X , remains unknown to us. The only monarch whose place in the Heracleopolitans’ succession is believed to be well established is Merikare, the addressee of the famous treatise on kingship. For almost eight decades he has been alleged to be the final or penultimate Heracleopolitan ruler. However, even this hardened opinion rests on erroneous presumptions. Close scrutiny of all pertaining records permits rather to identify Merikare with the sixth Heracleopolitan pharaoh, listed in the Turin King-list, V . 24, with the nomen “Khety.” Merikare’s father, the fifth king of Heracleopolis, managed to restore the capital back to Memphis. Therefore, later he was at times considered as founder of a new, Dynasty “ X ”, with his four “purely Heracleopolitan” predecessors forming “Dynasty IX .” Such is an explanation for Manetho’s much debated division of the Heracleopolitans into two dynasties.","PeriodicalId":41016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Egyptian History","volume":"9 1","pages":"97-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2016-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18741665-12340028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64831982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neshor at Elephantine in Late Saite Egypt","authors":"Hussein Bassir","doi":"10.1163/18741665-12340027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18741665-12340027","url":null,"abstract":"This paper represents a new publication, edition, and interpretation of the self-presentation of Neshor named Psamtikmenkhib (hereafter Neshor) found on theophorous statue Louvre A 90. Neshor and his statue date to Late Saite Egypt, and the text is rich and unique in content. Neshor’s activities at Elephantine, especially his role in the mercenaries’ revolt against King Apries early in the king’s reign are presented in light of Neshor’s related military titles and epithets. Archaeological issues surrounding the statue and text are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":41016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Egyptian History","volume":"47 1","pages":"66-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2016-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18741665-12340027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64832280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evidence for Administration of the Nubian Fortresses in the Late Middle Kingdom: The Semna Dispatches","authors":"Bryan Kraemer, Kate Liszka","doi":"10.1163/18741665-12340026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18741665-12340026","url":null,"abstract":"Evidence for the system of written communications used in Egypt’s administration of its forts is sparse. Of the papyri that exist, the “Semna Dispatches” has provided most of the information available about this system as it existed in Lower Nubia during the late Middle Kingdom. In 1945, Paul Smither posthumously published P. Ramesseum C ( BM EA 10752) as “The Semnah Despatches.” Smither was unaware of two fragments, framed with P. Ramesseum 19 ( BM EA 10772.2). This study edits the unpublished fragments and incorporates them into the larger discussion about the Semna Dispatches. They provide clarity for the document as a whole. They show that the dispatches were, primarily, used to coordinate surveillance around the Semna Gorge and, secondarily, to record security concerns for other fortresses. Furthermore, they were written in a surveillance office at Semna West and not in Thebes. This study resolves several debates about the dispatches and the control of Lower Nubia in the late Middle Kingdom.","PeriodicalId":41016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Egyptian History","volume":"9 1","pages":"1-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2016-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18741665-12340026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64832181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Tepi Shemu Feast: A Tool for Testing Chronologies of Dynasty 21 to 25?","authors":"R. Gautschy","doi":"10.1163/18741665-12340024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18741665-12340024","url":null,"abstract":"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 Banyai 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.","PeriodicalId":41016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Egyptian History","volume":"8 1","pages":"81-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2015-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18741665-12340024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64832157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Die Reihenfolge der kuschitischen Könige","authors":"M. Bányai","doi":"10.1163/18741665-12340023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18741665-12340023","url":null,"abstract":"Vorbemerkung (Angelika Lohwasser) Nach dem Erscheinen des Artikels „Ein Vorschlag zur Chronologie der 25. Dynastie in Agypten“ von Michael Banyai in JEgH 6 (2013): 46–129 entstand die Idee, die dort vorgebrachte Hypothese der Umkehrung der Herrscherreihenfolge in der 25. Dyn. in einer Expertenrunde zu diskutieren. Zu diesem Anlass trafen sich am 16.05.2014 Michael Banyai, Gerard Broekman, Dan´el Kahn, Karl Jansen-Winkeln, Claus Jurman, Hans Neumann, Laszlo Torok sowie Meike Becker, Anke Ilona Blobaum und Angelika Lohwasser in Munster bei der Diskussionsrunde „Die Chronologie der 25. Dynastie im alten Agypten“. 1 Nach der Vorstellung der Thesen durch Banyai und der Reaktionen auf bestimmte Argumente bzw. Vorstellung von einschlagigen Quellen durch die geladenen Referenten eroffneten wir eine Podiumsdiskussion, die zuletzt auch fur das anwesende Auditorium geoffnet wurde. 2 In den abschliesenden Gesprachen wurde die Idee geboren, dass Banyai eine Uberarbeitung seines Artikels unter Einbeziehung der Stellungnahmen verfasst und diese zur Kommentierung nochmals den Referenten zukommen lasst. Die jeweiligen Kommentare sind—mit Namenskurzeln gekennzeichnet—direkt nach dem betreffenden Absatz eingefugt worden bzw., sofern es sich um Literaturerganzungen handelt, in den Fusnoten beigefugt worden. 3 Mit dem erneuten Aufgreifen des Problems der Herrscherreihenfolge von Schabako und Schebitko und den Kommentaren zu den einzelnen Argumenten hoffen wir, die Diskussion auch in einem weiteren Rahmen anzustosen.","PeriodicalId":41016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Egyptian History","volume":"105 1","pages":"115-180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2015-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18741665-12340023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64832115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Egyptian Fiscal History in a World of Warring States, 664–30 bce","authors":"A. Monson","doi":"10.1163/18741665-12340021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18741665-12340021","url":null,"abstract":"From China to the Mediterranean, interstate competition transformed the political, economic, and social order in the mid-first millennium bce. The case of Egypt from the Saite reunification in 664 bceto the Roman conquest in 30 bceillustrates this phenomenon, which resembles the rise of fiscal-military states under the pressure of war in early modern Europe. The New Fiscal History that has sought to explain this rise in Europe tends to produce a linear historical account of centralization and increasing fiscal capacity from feudal societies to the modern tax state. In Egypt, by contrast, the process was interrupted by integration into the imperial structures of Achaemenid Persia and Rome. It thus provides a convenient laboratory to compare the development of fiscal institutions in a political environment characterized by warring states, and one dominated by a single empire.","PeriodicalId":41016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Egyptian History","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2015-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18741665-12340021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64832097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Political Realism of the Egyptian Elite: A Comparison between The Teaching For Merikareand Niccolò Machiavelli’s Il Principe","authors":"Chris Langer","doi":"10.1163/18741665-12340020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18741665-12340020","url":null,"abstract":"A comparison between The Teaching for Merikareand Niccolo Machiavelli’s Il Principeproduces some astonishing results. While Machiavelli’s treatise is generally thought to be representative of the dawn of modern Western political realism, its essential properties are already present in Merikare. This includes the firm belief in strong authority, the fallibility of man, the need to appease the masses, and, if necessary, the demand to repress any developing threat to the power of the elite. In terms of the history of political thought Merikareis placed between the works of the moral realism of Greek philosophers like Plato and the political realism of Thucydides and Machiavelli. With the latter being heavily influenced by ancient authors, questions regarding the genesis of Greek political thought can be asked. It may well be that Greek political thought was, at least indirectly, influenced by Egyptian political thought.","PeriodicalId":41016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Egyptian History","volume":"8 1","pages":"49-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2015-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18741665-12340020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64832093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Death in the Temple of Ptah: The Roman Conquest of Egypt and Conflict at Memphis","authors":"Nenad Marković","doi":"10.1163/18741665-12340022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18741665-12340022","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to trace the possible fate of the family of the High Priest of Ptah after the Roman conquest in 30 bce. The mysterious death of Imhotep / Padibastet ivcreated a clear rupture in the succession line. At first, Roman authorities seemed to hesitate to appoint a new high priest of Memphis, for various reasons, and thus waited almost three years to install Pasherienamun ii, the first cousin of Imhotep / Padibastet iv, at the temple of Ptah. This occurred simultaneously with the creation of new priestly office: “prophet of the son of Caesar.” However, the embalmed body of Imhotep / Padibastet ivremained unburied until 23 bce, which might indicate previous dysfunctional mutual relations between the primary and the secondary branches of the same family.","PeriodicalId":41016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Egyptian History","volume":"8 1","pages":"37-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2015-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18741665-12340022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64832104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Die „Großfürsten der Libu“ im westlichen Delta in der späten 22. Dynastie","authors":"K. Jansen-Winkeln","doi":"10.1163/18741665-12340017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18741665-12340017","url":null,"abstract":"In a recent article on the “Great chiefs of the Libu” in the Western Delta, Jan Moje tried to show that there were two local rulers called Ni-ma-teped (A/B) and two Tjer-pa-hati (i/ii), attested on five donation stelae. If one of those stelae is ascribed to Shoshenq iv rather than to Shoshenq v, three stelae mention a (single) ruler Ni-ma-teped during the reign of Shoshenq iv, and the remaining two a ruler Tjer-pa-hati under Shoshenq v.","PeriodicalId":41016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Egyptian History","volume":"7 1","pages":"194-202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2014-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18741665-12340017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64832019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Theban Kingdom of Dynasty 16: Its Rise, Administration and Politics","authors":"Alexander Ilin-Tomich","doi":"10.1163/18741665-12340016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18741665-12340016","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the emergence of the Theban kingdom of Dynasty 16 in the Second Intermediate Period and explores the historical repercussions of its assumed struggle with the declining state of Dynasty 13 centered at Itjtawy. A revision of the recent evidence from Edfu raises doubts about the alleged contemporaneity of Sobekhotep iv and Khayan. A survey of administrative titles in the sources pertaining to the Theban kingdom testifies that it arose independently based on the local power structures of the Late Middle Kingdom rather than because of a relocation from the north. The separation of the nascent Theban kingdom from the state of Dynasty 13 and a surmised consequent confrontation between these entities had an impact on the ideology of the new polity and influenced the policy of its direct successor—the state of Dynasty 17 and the early New Kingdom. The original lack of legitimacy of Dynasty 16 could have been one of the reasons for overstating the power of the Hyksos in historical texts—in order to justify Theban claims to rule in Middle and Lower Egypt.","PeriodicalId":41016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Egyptian History","volume":"7 1","pages":"143-193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2014-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18741665-12340016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64832010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}