King list Gallery
Photos, line-drawings and facsimiles of the king lists with sources where available. Most of the images can be found in out-of-print books from the 19th century. For detailed information, check the respective king list page.
Turin king list
Column 1
Peter Lundström 2020
edited Museum Egizio photo
Column 2
Peter Lundström 2020
edited Museum Egizio photo
Column 3
Peter Lundström 2020
edited Museum Egizio photo
Column 4
Peter Lundström 2020
edited Museum Egizio photo
Column 5
Peter Lundström 2020
edited Museum Egizio photo
Column 6
Peter Lundström 2020
edited Museum Egizio photo
Column 7
Peter Lundström 2020
edited Museum Egizio photo
Column 8
Peter Lundström 2020
edited Museum Egizio photo
Column 9
Peter Lundström 2020
edited Museum Egizio photo
Column 10
Peter Lundström 2020
edited Museum Egizio photo
Column 11
Peter Lundström 2020
edited Museum Egizio photo
Unplaced fragments
Peter Lundström 2020
edited Museum Egizio photo
Turin king list verso
Peter Lundström 2017
Facsimile created from the plates of Lepsius (1842).
Turin king list verso
Peter Lundström 2020
Photo with the fragment numbers.
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Turin king list verso
Peter Lundström 2020
Photo with the fragment numbers and the papyri sheets marked.
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Turin king list verso
Peter Lundström 2020
Photo with the fragment numbers and a 5 cm grid.
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Turin king list verso
Peter Lundström 2020
Photo without the fragment numbers.
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Turin king list verso
Peter Lundström 2020
Photo with only the photographed fragments.
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Turin king list verso
Peter Lundström 2020
Increased contrast photo without the fragment numbers.
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Turin king list verso
Peter Lundström 2020
Photo of the papyrus only.
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Turin king list recto
Peter Lundström 2020
The tax-register on the recto of the Turin king list.
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Abydos king list
Mariette 1869
Abydos, I, plate 43
Size: 2000x955 (285 kb)
Dümichen 1869
Historische Inschriften, II, plate XLV
Size: 2000x1591 (555 kb)
Karnak king list
Young (Burton) 1825
Plate 96
Size: 1800x1127 (632 kB)
Wilkinson 1830
Plate IV
Size: 1646x1037 (412 kB)
d’Avennes 1847
Plate I
Size: 1370x914 (500 kB)
Lepsius 1853
Plate I
Size: 2400x1154 (768 kB)
L’Illustration 1846
Page 244 top
Size: 1037x839 (328 kB)
L’Illustration 1846
Page 244 bottom
Size: 435x583 (86 kB)
L’Illustration 1846
Page 245
Size: 626x725 (189 kB)
Saqqara king list
Mariette 1864
Plate XVII
Size: 1462x519 (270 kB)
de Rougé, 1865
Album photographique, no. 143-145
Size: 1195x566 (146 kB)
de Rougé 1866
Recherches sur les Monuments..., Plate I
Size: 2000x608 (362 kB)
Mariette 1872
Plate 58
Size: 1861x939 (472 kB)
Peter Lundström 2011-12
My own reconstruction
Size: 3766x876 (957 kB)
Peter Lundström 2015
My own updated reconstruction
Size: 3766x920 (788 kB)
Saqqara king list 2010
Photograph
Size: 2036x963 (301 kB)
Ramesseum king list
Champollion 1845
Plates 149bis-150 composite
Size: 3000x771 (874 kB)
Lepsius 1849
Plates 162-164 composite
Size: 2500x691 (870 kB)
Epigraphic Survey 1940
Medinet Habu IV (OIP 51), Plate 213 (colored)
Size: 3088x815 (689 kB)
Medinet Habu king list
Vivant Denon 1802
Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte, plate 134
Size: 7400x2600 (943 kb)
Description de l’Egypte 1809
Description de l’Egypte, plate 11
Size: 4000x2794 (1.14 mb)
Wilkinson 1837
The manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians, plate 76
Size: 5000x1569 (833 kb)
Epigraphic Survey 1940
Medinet Habu IV, Plates 203-205 composite, colored
Size: 4482x930 (1.4 MB)
Festival scene (right side)
Medinet Habu 2016
Size: 1820x1077 (400 kB)
- Turin king list
223 kings – Dynasty 19 - Abydos Canon
76 kings – Dynasty 19 - Saqqara Canon
58 kings – Dynasty 19 - Karnak Canon
61 kings – Dynasty 18 - Comparing the canons
Abydos, Saqqara and Karnak - Ramesseum Canon
Ramesses II Mortuary Temple - Medinet Habu Canon
Ramesses III Mortuary Temple
Ancient historians
- Herodotus
450 BC – Histories - Manetho
250 BC – Aegyptiaca - Diodorus
50 BC – Bibliotheca Historica - Josephus
100 CE – Against Apion - Africanus
220 CE – Chronographai - Eusebius
325 CE – Chronicon - Jerome
380 CE – Chronicon - Syncellus
800 CE – Egloga Chronographai - Eratosthenes
Probably a forgery (date unknown) - Comparing the sources
Transmission of Manetho
by Africanus et. al.
OK – Old Kingdom
Dynasties 3-6
MK – Middle Kingdom
Dynasties 11-12
NK – New Kingdom
Dynasties 18-20
SIP – Second Intermediate Period
Dynasties 13-17
Thebes – The Southern capital
Memphis – The Northern capital
Epitome – Manetho’s original Aegyptiaca was lost in antiquity, and in the following centuries, it was replaced by Epitomes (summaries) by rivalling advocates of Jewish, Egyptian, and Greek history that saw each side trying to establish the truth according to their point of view.
Vorlage – From the German for prototype or template, a vorlage is a prior version of a manuscript, in this case an earlier version of the canon.
Recto and verso – Recto is the front side and verso is the back side of a written or printed text.
Cartouche – oval band enclosing a pharaohs name
Hieratic – cursive form of hieroglyphic script
Hyksos – Greek form of
Mortuary Temple – where the gods and the king who built the temple were worshipped.
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