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Karnak King List

The Karnak King-list was located in the Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak, Egypt and created during the reign of Thutmose III. It listed sixty-one kings, though only thirty-nine names are still legible. The original is housed in the Louvre museum in Paris with a replica remaining at Karnak Temple. The purpose of the list was to show revered ancestors rather than provide a strict chronological record of pharaohs.

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Karnak King List

The Karnak King-list was located in the Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak, Egypt and created during the reign of Thutmose III. It listed sixty-one kings, though only thirty-nine names are still legible. The original is housed in the Louvre museum in Paris with a replica remaining at Karnak Temple. The purpose of the list was to show revered ancestors rather than provide a strict chronological record of pharaohs.

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The Karnak King-list

The Karnak king list is a king list that was located in the southwest corner of the Akh-Menu Hall of
the Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak, Egypt. Created during the reign of Thutmose III, it listed sixty-one
kings, only the names of thirty-nine kings are still legible, and one is not written in a cartouche.
The original is in the Louvre museum in Paris (Chapelle des anctres, Cat. no. E 13481 bis,) and a
replica is located at the original site in the Akh-menu (Heret-ib) festival hall, room SF5 Karnak, Akhmenu (Festival Hall of Thutmose III), room SF5.
The purpose of the list was to show revered or celebrated "ancestors," and was not meant to be a
chronological list. The seemingly arbitrary positions the pharaohs are placed in does not reflect the
order of succession.

Lepsius, Auswahl 1842

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