primary_source_edition · src_egyfull_manetho_waddell_1940
Manetho
W. G. Waddell (editor and translator) · 1940
Reading ancient testimony
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Document and modern access
- Type
- primary_source_edition
- Publication
- Harvard University Press
Records informed by this source
- relationship Research record — proposed memory ofEvidence confidence: highsupports · provides later tradition · Hyksos fragments
Documents the later transmitted narrative with its limitations.
- relationship Research record — proposed memory ofEvidence confidence: highsupports · provides later tradition · Hyksos fragments
Documents the later transmitted narrative with its limitations.
- myth interpretation Hyksos as a sudden homogeneous mass invasionUnsupported explanationConfidence in this assessment: highConfidence in this assessment, not in the proposed storysupports · provides later tradition · Hyksos fragments
Documents the later transmitted narrative with its limitations.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highsupports · provides later tradition · Hyksos fragments
Documents the later transmitted narrative with its limitations.
- claim Ramesside king lists and Manetho are valuable historical constructions but are not contemporary evidence for early reigns.Evidence confidence: near certainsupports · supports claim · Surviving fragments and transmission
Supports the claim and its qualifications.
- entity Manetho's AegyptiacaEvidence confidence: highsupports · supports entity · Relevant discussion or corpus description
Supports the entity and its interpretive limits.
- date assertion Manetho's Aegyptiaca — date assertionEvidence confidence: highsupports · supports entity · Relevant discussion or corpus description
Supports the entity and its interpretive limits.
- relationship Manetho's Aegyptiaca — later source for modern dynasty framework — Early Dynastic PeriodEvidence confidence: highsupports · supports relationship · Dynastic fragments and transmission
Supports the relationship and its qualifications.