The Gentile Times Reconsidered Chronology Christ

142 THE GENTILE TIMES RECONSIDERED
This is the kind of contemporary evidence to which Dr. Kienitz
refers. A translation of Kienitz’ survey of this material is given
here. 102
1. GRAVE STELE OF THE 3RD APIS OF THE 26TH DYNASTY
Date of Birth: Year 53 of Psammetichus I, Month 6, Day 19
Installation: Year 54 of Psammetichus I, Month 3, Day 12
Date of Death: Year 16 of Necho II, Month 2, Day 6
Date of Burial: Year 16 of Necho II, Month 4, Day 16
Length of Life:
16 years, 7 months, 17 days
Result: Length of reign of Psammetichus = 54 years.
2. GRAVE STELE OF THE 4TH APIS OF THE 26TH DYNASTY
Date of Birth: Year 16 of Necho II, Month 2, Day 7
Installation: Year 1 of Psammetichus II, Month 11, Day 9
Date of Death: Year 12 of Apries, Month 8, Day 12
Date of Burial: Year 1.2 of Apries, Month 10, Day 21
Length of Life:
17 years, 6 months, 5 days
Result: As the date of Psammetichus II’s death is elsewhere attested as Year 7,
Month 1, Day 23, 103 the length of Necho’s reign amounts to 15 years, that of
Psammetichus II to 6 years.
3. TWO GRAVE STELAE OF A PRIEST NAMED PSAMMETICHUS
Date of Birth: Year 1 of Necho II, Month 11, Day 1
Date of Death: Year 27 of Amasis, Month 8, Day 28
Length of Life:
65 years, 10 months, 2 days
Result: The sum of the lengths of reign of Necho II, Psammetichus II, and Apries
= 40 years. As Necho II reigned for 15 years, and Psammetichus II for 6 years,
Apries’ reign amounts to 19 years.
4. GRAVE STELE OF ANOTHER PSAMMETICHUS
Date of Birth: Year 3 of Necho II, Month 10, Day 1 or 2
Date of Death: Year 35 of Amasis, Month 2, Day 6
Length of Life:
71 years, 4 months, 6 days
Result: The same as under 3.
5. GRAVE STELE OF ONE BESMAUT
Year of Birth:
Year 18 of Psammetichus I
Year of Death:
Year 23 of Amasis
Length of Life:
99 years
Result: The total of 94 years for the lengths of reign from Psammetichus I to
Apries inclusive is once more confirmed.
102 Kienitz, op. cit., pp. 155, 156. The grave stelae under no. 1, 2, and 3 were
translated and published by James Henry Breasted in Ancient Records of Egypt,
Vol. IV (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1906), pp. 497, 498,
501–503, 518–520. For no. 4 and 5, see the references by Kienitz, op.cit., p. 156,
notes 1 and 2.
103 Lines 5/6 of the Ank-nes-nefer-ib-Re Stele. See G. Maspero, Ann. Serv. 5 (1904),
pp. 85, 86, and the translation by J. H. Breasted, op. cit., IV, p. 505.