What is the Saqqara Tablet?
Q: What is the Saqqara Tablet?
A: The Saqqara Tablet is a stone from Ancient Egypt with a list of Egyptian pharaohs from the New Kingdom inscribed on it.
Q: Where was the Saqqara Tablet found?
A: The Saqqara Tablet was found in a tomb at Saqqara in 1861.
Q: Who did the tomb belong to?
A: The tomb belonged to Tjenry (or Tjuneroy), an official of the pharaoh Ramesses II.
Q: How many kings are named on the Saqqara Tablet?
A: The Saqqara Tablet names 58 kings, from Anedjib and Qa'a in the First Dynasty to Ramesses II in the Nineteenth Dynasty.
Q: Is the list in chronological or reverse chronological order?
A: The list is in reverse chronological order.
Q: Are there any missing names?
A: Yes, the list leaves out names of "rulers from the Second Intermediate Period, the Hyksos, and those rulers... who had been close to the heretic Akhenaten".
Q: How many names have survived and are there any mistakes in the list?
A: Only 47 names have survived and there are mistakes in the list. For example, it only mentions four kings of the Third Dynasty. The order is correct only for the kings of the Twelfth Dynasty.
