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From: "Chris Bennett" <>
Subject: Re: POSSIBLE GATEWAY: FROM AFRICA TO EUROPE
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:32:50 GMT
References: <c57e4f24.0403141731.5b931209@posting.google.com> <00f601c40aee$508f9da0$9b0d0043@hppav> <010401c40af0$dd3b5b20$9b0d0043@hppav> <7004aa4b.0403161328.2409e930@posting.google.com> <40582A2C.1070409@interfold.com> <7004aa4b.0403171315.e1450fe@posting.google.com> <40591FC1.6080000@interfold.com> <ac1a3786.0404051920.56e6a1f6@posting.google.com> <0Lzcc.47119$Hg2.43344@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com> <ac1a3786.0404131122.3db3309d@posting.google.com>


None of the sources given at this site appear to be studies of the early
kings of this list. It might be worth asking Christopher Buyers where he
got it from.

As far as the origins of Rey's list, a fair statement of the state of the
art at the time it was given to him can probably be found in

Budge, E. A. Wallis: A History of Ethiopia, Nubia and Abyssinia (According
to the Hieroglyphic Inscriptions of Egypt and Nubia and the Ethiopian
Chronicles). London, 1928: Methuen (two vols.).

Chris



"Jared Linn Olar" <> wrote in message
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> "Chris Bennett" <> wrote in message
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> > Before someone jumps on that word "probably", the point is that there is
no
> > way, given the information available about this kinglist, to show that
these
> > names are derived from earlier kinglists uncontaminated by European
contact.
> >
> > Chris
>
> I've just done some quick Google searching, and found this:
>
> http://www.4dw.net/royalark/Ethiopia/solomon.htm
>
> The kinglist shown there is quite different from Rey's version -- and
> much shorter. The Nubian kings don't appear in this version.
>
> (The "royalark" kinglist also has Menelik I beginning to reign in 204
> B.C., which of course is irreconcilable with the ridiculous legend of
> Solomon and the Queen of Sheba in the Kebra Nagast.)
>
> Jared Linn Olar


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