Saqqara Tablet

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The Saqqara Tablet, now in the

Ramesside Period of Egypt which features a list of pharaohs. It was found in 1861 in Saqqara, in the tomb of Tjuneroy (or Tjenry), an official ("chief lector priest" and "Overseer of Works on All Royal Monuments") of the pharaoh Ramesses II.[1]

The inscription lists fifty-eight kings, from

Second Intermediate Period, the Hyksos, and those rulers... who had been close to the heretic Akhenaten".[2]

The names (each surrounded by a border known as a

Twelfth Dynasties, which are reversed. A well known photograph of the king list was published in 1865.[3] Detailed and high resolution images are able to be viewed online and inside the book Inside the Egyptian Museum with Zahi Hawass [4]

Drawing of the Saqqara King List based on photographs and drawings from 1864-65.

Kings in the list

The names are listed in reverse chronological order from the upper right to the bottom left, as they were meant to be read.

Upper row Bottom row
No. Pharaoh Name written in the list No. Pharaoh Name written in the list
1 Ramesses II User-maat-ra-setep-en-ra 30 Neferefre Kha-nefer-ra
2 Seti I Men-maat-ra 31 Shepseskare Shepses-ka-ra
3 Ramesses I Men-peh-ti-ra 32 Neferirkare Kakai Nefer-ir-ka-ra
4 Horemheb Djeser-kheperu-ra-setep-en-ra 33 Sahure Sahura
5 Name destroyed Name destroyed 34 Userkaf User-ka-f
6 Name destroyed Name destroyed 35 Name destroyed Name destroyed
7 Name destroyed Name destroyed 36 Name destroyed Name destroyed
8 Name destroyed Name destroyed 37 Name destroyed Name destroyed
9 Name destroyed Name destroyed 38 Name destroyed Name destroyed
10 Name destroyed Name destroyed 39 Name destroyed Name destroyed
11 Amenhotep I Djeser-ka-ra 40 Khafre Kha-f-ra
12 Ahmose I Neb-pehti-ra 41
Djedefra
 Djed-ef-re
13 Mentuhotep II Nebhepetre 42 Khufu Khufu
14 Mentuhotep III Se-ankh-ka-ra 43 Sneferu Sneferu
15 Amenemhat I Se-hetep-ib-ra 44 Huni Huni
16 Senusret I Kheper-ka-ra 45 Nebka Neb-ka-ra
17 Amenemhat II Nub-kau-ra 46 Sekhemkhet Djoser-teti
18 Senusret II Kha-kheper-ra 47 Djoser Djoser
19 Senusret III Kha-khau-ra 48 Khasekhemwy Beby
20 Amenemhat III Ni-maat-ra 49 Hudjefa "Name missing"
21 Amenemhat IV Maat-kheru-ra 50 Sekhemib-Perenmaat? Nefer-ka-sokar
22 Sobekneferu Ka-sobek-re 51 Seth-Peribsen? Nefer-ka-ra
23 Pepi II Neferkare Nefer-ka-ra 52 Senedj Senedj
24 Merenre Nemtyemsaf I Mer-en-ra 53 Wadjenes Wadjlas
25 Pepi I Meryre Pepi 54 Nynetjer Ba-netjeru
26 Teti Teti 55
Raneb
 Kakau
27 Unas Unis 56 Hotepsekhemwy Bau-netjer
28
Djedkare
 Maat-ka-ra 57 Qa'a Qe-behu
29
Menkauhor
 Men-kau-hor 58 Anedjib Merbapen

Proposed reconstruction

As names 5-10 and 35-39 are missing or badly damaged, the following names are suggested to have once been listed here. Note that this reconstruction is based on other kings lists and circumstantial evidence.

Upper row Bottom row
5 Amenhotep III 34 Userkaf
6 Thutmose IV 35 Khentkaus I?
7 Amenhotep II 36 Thamphthis?
8 Thutmose III 37 Shepseskaf
9 Thutmose II 38 Menkaure
10 Thutmose I 39
Bicheris
?

Other New Kingdom royal lists

References

  1. ISBN 0-415-27103-7
    . Page 74.
  2. ^ Quoted from: Gerald Verbrugghe, John Moore Wickersham. Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated. University of Michigan Press, 2001. Page 104.
  3. ^ de Rougé, Emmanuel (1865). Album photographique de la mission remplie en Égypte. Paris. pp. 152, photographs 143–145.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ISBN 9789774163722
    .

Bibliography

  • Auguste Mariette: La table de Saqqarah in Revue Archeologique Vol 10, Paris 1864, p. 168-186, Pl. 17
  • Emmanuel de Rougé: Album photographique de la mission remplie en Égypte, Paris 1865, Photographs, No. 143-145
  • Auguste Mariette: Monuments divers recueillis en Égypte et en Nubie (Tables), Paris 1872, Vol. II, Pl. 58
  • Eduard Meyer: Ägyptische Chronologie, Pl. 1, (Berlin 1904)
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