Aegyptiaca

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ancient historical work chronological history lost literary work

Aegyptiaca is an ancient historical work by the Egyptian priest Manetho that presents a chronological account of Egypt’s dynasties and kings.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Manetho’s Aegyptiaca	2

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient historical work ⓘ chronological history ⓘ lost literary work ⓘ
associatedWith	Ptolemaic scholarly tradition ⓘ
author	Manetho NERFINISHED ⓘ
citedBy	Africanus NERFINISHED ⓘ Eusebius of Caesarea NERFINISHED ⓘ George Syncellus NERFINISHED ⓘ Josephus NERFINISHED ⓘ
commissionedBy	Ptolemaic court NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Ptolemaic Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ
dateWritten	3rd century BCE ⓘ
describesPeriod	Early Dynastic Period of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ Late Period of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ Middle Kingdom of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ New Kingdom of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Kingdom of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ Ptolemaic period NERFINISHED ⓘ predynastic Egypt ⓘ
fieldOfStudy	Egyptology ⓘ ancient historiography ⓘ classics ⓘ
genre	historiography ⓘ
hasPart	list of Egyptian dynasties ⓘ regnal years of kings ⓘ sequence of rulers ⓘ
historicalSignificance	basis for modern numbering of Egyptian dynasties ⓘ key source for reconstruction of Egyptian chronology ⓘ
influenced	later chronographers of Egypt ⓘ
intendedAudience	Greek-speaking world ⓘ
knownFrom	fragments in later authors ⓘ
mainSubject	Egyptian dynasties NERFINISHED ⓘ Egyptian kings ⓘ history of ancient Egypt ⓘ
originalLanguage	Ancient Greek ⓘ
originalTitle	Αἰγυπτιακά ⓘ
purpose	to present Egyptian history in Greek historiographical form ⓘ
relatedWork	Egyptian king lists from Abydos ⓘ Saqqara king list NERFINISHED ⓘ Turin Royal Canon NERFINISHED ⓘ
status	extant only in quotations and summaries ⓘ
structure	dynastic lists ⓘ king lists ⓘ
titleLanguage	Latin ⓘ
usesSource	Egyptian king lists NERFINISHED ⓘ Egyptian temple records ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Manetho → notableWork → Aegyptiaca ⓘ

Manetho → knownFor → Aegyptiaca ⓘ

Seventh Dynasty of Egypt → source → Aegyptiaca ⓘ

this entity surface form: Manetho’s Aegyptiaca

Ninth Dynasty of Egypt → knownFrom → Aegyptiaca ⓘ

this entity surface form: Manetho’s Aegyptiaca