...Thank you. Rohl has little to say about the troubled period of Rameses IV-X. He has Rameses III dying in 832, a civil war in 830, a mysterious period called "Repeating of Births" (wehem.mesut) 829-820, and Shoshenk I founding the 22nd dynasty in 822 and being dominant by 813 with Rameses XI, Psusennes I and Pinudjem I subservient to him. All this is again simply reporting what Rohl writes, as background in a book mainly about the Israelites.
See this, then. I just put it up now, although it is part of my next book. http://www.geocities.com/scribelist/Lepers.html
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>>Interesting. In the same chapter Rohl dates the Trojan War 872-863 (so
agreeing with Diodorus Siculus that this was in the time of Setnakht),
and Menelaus visiting Setnakht (= Thouris = Polybus) soon afterwards. I
am sure Rohl's chronology could be adjusted sufficiently to have
Menelaus visiting Tausert instead with your identification, but wouldn't
the Greeks have realised that it was a woman he visited?>>
They did--and called her Polydamna. She was the one who introduced the Greeks to a drug--nepenthe--which made people forget their woes. What the Greeks didn't realize that this Polydamna was the same as Thouris.
>>But your visit to Egypt by Helen would have to be earlier. Indeed, your synchronisms of Helen visiting Setnakht before the Trojan War and Menelaus visiting Tausert after the Trojan war both work only if Setnakht precedes
Tausert, and that is what Joe said is impossible.>>
But I didn't say anything about "before" or "after" the Trojan War. It is only said that Proteios, which I equate with Setnakt, ruled around the time of the Trojan War.
I'm not sure what your "Sorry" is about, but there is nothing here inconsistent with what Rohl writes.
>>I wonder if Rohl tried to bring both of these synchronisms into an earlier version of his chronology but was forced to make adjustments by the evidence from Tausert's tomb.>>
I wouldn't know anything about that. But I do know this: Tawosret was a female regent for a young king named Siptah, a puppet of Bey, the "kingmaker". Bey was obviously allied with Tawosret. My conclusion is that, at some point, this Siptah became troublesome and Tawosret usurped his prerogative--in a Hatshepsut-like maneuver. But it also looks like Siptah killed Bey. Siptah was the son of an unknown pharaoh but his mother had a foreign name, shortened to Tiaa. Sorry, but the tomb of Tawosret, where she is at first shown with Siptah, was usurped by Setnakht. The tomb of Tawosret appears to depict some stages. As I said, at first she is shown with Siptah--as his regent. Then she is shown with her husband, Seti II, his names being written over those of Siptah. Then Setnakht takes over the tomb--his images replacing the earlier ones of Tawosret. It is the sarcophagus of Setnakht that was found in the tomb--not that of Tawosret. Hers was taken out in ancient times and later reused to hold the body of a Ramesside prince. So Tawosret was never buried in that tomb.
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