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Erm...are you sure the dates are right here? The 6th dynasty lists Pepi II as ruling much earlier than the actual page does. This is very confusing as I'm trying to find out who would have been Pharoah in the year 2270 BC.
Lady BlahDeBlah 22:37, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
24th century BC says that he started to reign in 2383, which is contrast with this article. -- 67.172.13.176 ( talk) 15:58, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm sceptical of the claim, given the paucity of data available and given that two of the references point to the Middle Kingdom. Can anyone verify the Greenberg ref?
-- Michael C. Price talk 00:40, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Teti, a commoner, saw “the divine person of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Neferkare, going out during the night to walk on his own… [Remaining hidden,] Teti said to himself, ‘if this is the case, then it is true what is said about him, that he goes forth during the night.’ … [Then Teti followed the king, who] arrived at the house of the general Sasenet. He threw up a stone and stamped his foot, at which a [ladder] was lowered down for him. He climbed up, and Teti son of Henet waited... When his divine person had done what he wanted to with [the general], he returned to the palace, and Teti son of Henet followed him...” Teti then notes that the king went to the general’s house at the fourth hour of the night [10 p.m.] and spent four hours there.”
The problem of course is that the source is written at least a thousand years after Neferkare lived so must cast heavy doubt on whether the events described actually happened? Nevertheless those writing in the middle kingdom wanted to describe the relationship - perhaps to underline the corruption/ decay of the Neferkare dynasty? Contaldo80 ( talk) 13:26, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
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Erm...are you sure the dates are right here? The 6th dynasty lists Pepi II as ruling much earlier than the actual page does. This is very confusing as I'm trying to find out who would have been Pharoah in the year 2270 BC.
Lady BlahDeBlah 22:37, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
24th century BC says that he started to reign in 2383, which is contrast with this article. -- 67.172.13.176 ( talk) 15:58, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm sceptical of the claim, given the paucity of data available and given that two of the references point to the Middle Kingdom. Can anyone verify the Greenberg ref?
-- Michael C. Price talk 00:40, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Teti, a commoner, saw “the divine person of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Neferkare, going out during the night to walk on his own… [Remaining hidden,] Teti said to himself, ‘if this is the case, then it is true what is said about him, that he goes forth during the night.’ … [Then Teti followed the king, who] arrived at the house of the general Sasenet. He threw up a stone and stamped his foot, at which a [ladder] was lowered down for him. He climbed up, and Teti son of Henet waited... When his divine person had done what he wanted to with [the general], he returned to the palace, and Teti son of Henet followed him...” Teti then notes that the king went to the general’s house at the fourth hour of the night [10 p.m.] and spent four hours there.”
The problem of course is that the source is written at least a thousand years after Neferkare lived so must cast heavy doubt on whether the events described actually happened? Nevertheless those writing in the middle kingdom wanted to describe the relationship - perhaps to underline the corruption/ decay of the Neferkare dynasty? Contaldo80 ( talk) 13:26, 5 January 2010 (UTC)