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Dating the end of the Egyptian Old Kingdom: new contextualized dates from the reign of King Pepy II

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In this study, the temporal accession date of king Pepy II is modeled by using a series of $^{14}$C dates based on samples from the burial of Djau at Deir el-Gebrawi in Middle Egypt. Djau was one of Pepy II’s officials—overseer of Upper Egypt and nomarch of the 8th and 12th provinces. Five samples of Djau’s wrapping as well as his wooden coffin were analyzed. ATR-FTIR (Attenuated Total Reflection–Fourier Transform InfraRed spectroscopy) analyses were carried out on textile samples to ensure they were not contaminated by organic chemicals due to the embalming process, prior to being dated using the conventional radiocarbon method at the IFAO Laboratory (Cairo). Based on archaeological evidence, the temporal density associated with Djau’s death is then used as a chronological marker for the death date of king Pepy II. Taking into account the possibility of either biennial, annual or irregular censuses to assess the duration of his reign, the accession date of Pepy II is thus modeled using OxCal software. The results place king Pepy II’s accession date between 2492 to 2256 BCE with 95.4% probability, and between 2422 to 2297 BCE with 68.3%
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hal-04584245 , version 1 (23-05-2024)

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Anita Quiles, Karin Sowada, Naguib Kanawati. Dating the end of the Egyptian Old Kingdom: new contextualized dates from the reign of King Pepy II. Radiocarbon, 2023, 65, pp.1080 - 1097. ⟨10.1017/rdc.2023.94⟩. ⟨hal-04584245⟩
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