Baden Papyrus 4.59

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The Papyrus Baden 4.59 (also pBaden 4.59 ; " Pseudo-Manetho -Abschrift" ) is a small papyrus fragment from the fifth century AD. The short, preserved Greek text is a list of the Persian kings who ruled over Egypt in the 27th century . Dynasty ( late period / Persian rule ) ruled. Today it is in the papyrus collection of the Heidelberg University Library (Inv. G 631).

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Although the name of the author is not preserved on the fragment, the structure of the content suggests that it is based on the post-processed epitoms of Manetho , which refer to the Aegyptiaca (history of Egypt). The papyrus names the following kings:

• Cambyses , in the fourth year of his Persian rule, he became king (of Egypt) for six years.
• Magoi ruled for seven months.
• Darius , son of Hystaspes , ruled for 36 years .
• Xerxes the great ruled for [..] years.
• Artabanos ruled for [..] months .
• Artaxerxes-Longhand , son, ruled for [..] years .
• Xerxes ruled for [..] months .
• Sogdianos ruled for [..] months .
• Dareios-Nothos ruled for [..] years .
• [...] ph [...]: son [...] .

In the arrangements by Eusebius of Caesarea and the later “ Armenian version of Eusebius” the king “Magoi” is also mentioned; however, his name is missing from Sextus Iulius Africanus .

See also

• Book of Sothis

literature

• Friedrich Bilabel : Publications from the Baden Papyrus Collections , Issue 4: Greek Papyri (documents, letters, writing tablets, ostracas, etc.) , Heidelberg 1924, No. 59
• Friedrich Bilabel: The smaller historian fragments on papyrus (Small texts for lectures and exercises 149), Bonn 1923, pp. 34–36, No. 11
• Felix Jacoby : The Fragments of the Greek Historians No. C 97
• William Gillian Waddell: Manetho (= The Loeb classical library. Vol. 350). Heinemann et al., London 1940, pp. 174–175 and plate III (Reprinted edition. Harvard University. Press et al., Cambridge MA 2004, ISBN 0-674-99385-3 )
• Gerald P. Verbrugghe, John M. Wickersham: Berossos and Manetho, introduced and translated. Native traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2000, ISBN 0-472-08687-1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerald P. Verbrugghe, John M. Wickersham: Berossos and Manetho. 2000, pp. 164-165 and 202.