The boundaries between the first three dynasties:: Actual fact or late tradition?

Josep Cervello Autuori

The boundaries between the first three dynasties: Actual fact or late tradition?

Josep Cervello Autuori

Department of Antiquity and Middle Age Studies

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Abstract

In his Aigyptiaka, Manetho organises the history of Egypt on the basis of the concept of ‘dynasty’—as a definite and closed sequence of kings—and isolates thirty dynasties. Traces of this chronographical arrangement can be found in earlier Egyptian sources, so it is not an invention of Greco-Roman times, but a feature of the Pharaonic conception of time and past. But at what time in Egyptian history did the notion of ‘dynasty’ take shape? Did it already exist from the very beginning of the Dynastic Period? In this contribution we discuss this issue and the evidence which seems to confirm that the boundaries between the first three dynasties were already established contemporarily by the creators of the Egyptian chronography.

Translated title of the contribution	Los límites entre las primeras tres dinastías:: ¿Hecho real o tradición tardía?
Original language	English
Title of host publication	Remove that pyramid!
Subtitle of host publication	Studies on the Archaeology and History of Predynastic and Pharaonic Egypt in Honour of Stan Hendrickx
Editors	Wouter Claes, Marleen De Meyer, Merel Eyckerman, Dirk Huyge
Place of Publication	Leuven-Paris-Bristol, CT
Publisher	Peeters Publishers
Pages	151-164
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	978-90-429-4255-4
Publication status	Published - 2021

Publication series

Name	Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta
Publisher	Peeters
Volume	305

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Cervello Autuori, J. (2021). The boundaries between the first three dynasties: Actual fact or late tradition? In W. Claes, M. De Meyer, M. Eyckerman, & D. Huyge (Eds.), Remove that pyramid!: Studies on the Archaeology and History of Predynastic and Pharaonic Egypt in Honour of Stan Hendrickx (pp. 151-164). Article 9 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; Vol. 305). Peeters Publishers. https://ddd.uab.cat/record/292375

Cervello Autuori, Josep. / The boundaries between the first three dynasties: Actual fact or late tradition?. Remove that pyramid!: Studies on the Archaeology and History of Predynastic and Pharaonic Egypt in Honour of Stan Hendrickx. editor / Wouter Claes ; Marleen De Meyer ; Merel Eyckerman ; Dirk Huyge. Leuven-Paris-Bristol, CT : Peeters Publishers, 2021. pp. 151-164 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta).

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Cervello Autuori, J 2021, The boundaries between the first three dynasties: Actual fact or late tradition? in W Claes, M De Meyer, M Eyckerman & D Huyge (eds), Remove that pyramid!: Studies on the Archaeology and History of Predynastic and Pharaonic Egypt in Honour of Stan Hendrickx., 9, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, vol. 305, Peeters Publishers, Leuven-Paris-Bristol, CT, pp. 151-164. <https://ddd.uab.cat/record/292375>

The boundaries between the first three dynasties: Actual fact or late tradition? / Cervello Autuori, Josep.
Remove that pyramid!: Studies on the Archaeology and History of Predynastic and Pharaonic Egypt in Honour of Stan Hendrickx. ed. / Wouter Claes; Marleen De Meyer; Merel Eyckerman; Dirk Huyge. Leuven-Paris-Bristol, CT: Peeters Publishers, 2021. p. 151-164 9 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; Vol. 305).

Research output: Chapter in Book › Chapter › Research › peer-review

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Cervello Autuori J. The boundaries between the first three dynasties: Actual fact or late tradition? In Claes W, De Meyer M, Eyckerman M, Huyge D, editors, Remove that pyramid!: Studies on the Archaeology and History of Predynastic and Pharaonic Egypt in Honour of Stan Hendrickx. Leuven-Paris-Bristol, CT: Peeters Publishers. 2021. p. 151-164. 9. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta).