Late Old Kingdom chronology–another model
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Posener-Kriéger who recognized two lunar dates in the Neferirkare archive limited her analysis to relative chronology. There are two possibilities: either both lunar dates fell in the reign of of Asosi, or one in Asosi‘s reign, and the other in a year of Unas. In the present article the possible absolute years for the two lunar dates are computed, together with extrapolated lunar dates, both under the assumption that at the time there was a regular succession of years with and without a census. The resulting chronology is an alternative to Gautschy’s model which she based on Nolan’s hypothesis that years after the census were counted when a thirteenth lunar month had to be taken into consideration.
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The correctness of the High and Low chronologies has been actively debated for more than a century.
“The correctness of these two alternatives, High and Low, has been actively debated for more than a century [1,26,29,30,34,35].”
From Resolution of the High versus Low debate for Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt (2025) · cites this paper as [34]
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Resolution of the High versus Low debate for Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt
Erdil, P., Webster, L., Kuitems, M., Knoblauch, C., Bestock, L., Höflmayer, F., Beeckman, H., Fuller, D. Q., Manning, S. W., & Dee, M. W. (2025) · PLOS One · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0314612 · Cited by 3 · see citing works
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Sothic Dating of the Egyptian Old Kingdom
Puchkov, A. (2024) · The World of the Orient · doi:10.15407/orientw2024.01.042
- Authors
- Krauss, R.
- Corresponding author
- Krauss, Rolf
- ORCID
- Krauss, Rolf
- Venue
- Ägypten und Levante
- Published
- 2021
- Volume
- 31
- Pages
- 293-300
- ISSN
- 1015-5104 (ISSN-L)
- 1813-5145
- OpenAlex
- W4205167802
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1
- FWCI
- 3.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- de
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Ägypten und Levante (publishedVersion)
- Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online (Institut für kunst- und musikhistorische Forschungen der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften) (submittedVersion)
- Austrian Biographical Dictionary (Austrian Academy of Sciences) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Historical Astronomy and Related Studies
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Classical Antiquity Studies
- Keywords
- Late Old Kingdom, absolute chronology, Una, Egyptian kings
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