Posted on 12/10/2018 1:43:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The archaeological mission working in the archaeological site of al-Khalwa area, Fayoum, has uncovered a burial well, located to the east of the Prince Waji's tomb... Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Waziri said that al-Khalwa, located at southern Fayoum, contains a cemetery dating back to the Middle Kingdom era, namely Amenemhat III era (1842-1799 BC). He added that the cemetery has the tomb of Prince Waji, the ruler of Fayoum in the Middle Kingdom, as well as the tomb of his mother "Nabat Mout", which lies to the east of it. Meanwhile, Head of the archaeological mission Ayman Ashmawy referred that the well contains three burial chambers, in which the mission found the upper part of a statue (40 cm height) made from sandstone of a person holding his hand on his chest along with the middle part of a basalt statue (30 cm height)... In this regard, Hani Abul Azm, the head of the Central Administration for Antiquities of upper Egypt, remarked that Waji's tomb was carved in rock and was discovered by the Italian mission of the University of Pisa in 1981 through the archaeological survey project in the area. He added that the mission found inside the tomb a limestone statue, on which the name of the prince was written, a part of a wooden coffin and a pottery vessel. He explained that the statue is currently kept inside the museum store of Kom Oshim, Fayoum. "The ceiling of the tomb was completely collapsed, maybe due to a massive earthquake in the ancient history or the weight of the roof stones," said Sayed Al Shoura, General Director of Antiquities Sector. He said that Italian mission has built a new ceiling to protect the tomb's inscriptions under the supervision of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
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Joseph and Potiphar, Immanuel VelikovskyThe story of Joseph is one of the best known in the Bible... in order to find out whether the personality of Joseph or the patron of the early stage of his career, Potiphar, is referred to in the historical documents, we have to look into those of the Middle Kingdom. The task appears simple. According to the Book of Genesis Potiphar was "an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard." In the register of the private names to the Ancient Records of Egypt by James Breasted, we find the name Ptahwer... at the service of the Pharaoh Amenemhet III of the Twelfth Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom. According to an inscription of Ptahwer at Sarbut el-Khadem in Sinai dated in the forty-fifth year of Amenemhet III, his office was that of "master of the double cabinet, chief of the treasury." ...The inscription records the successful accomplishment of some peaceful expedition. Since there is only one Ptahwer in the historical documents, and since he lived in the time when we expect to find him, we are probably not wrong in identifying the biblical Potiphar with the historical Ptahwer. This being the conclusion concerning Potiphar, we are curious to find whether any mention of Joseph is found in historical documents, too. the fact that from the great and glorious age of the Middle Kingdom only a very few historical inscriptions are extant. Since a great famine took place in the days of Joseph, it is, of course, important to trace such a famine in the age of which we speak. In the days of Amenemhet III there occurred in Egypt a famine enduring nine long years... Thus it seems that the Pharaoh in whose days was the seven years' famine was the successor of the Pharaoh in whose days began the rise of Joseph's career (if Yatu is Joseph). Potiphar, who lived under Amenemhet III, probably lived also under his successor. The inscription which deals with Ptahwer mentions a man whose name is transliterated by Breasted as Y-t-w. Among the monuments of Amenemhet III's reign is one of the Storekeeper... The inscription that mentions Ptahwer refers to his activity in the mines of the Sinai peninsula. In this respect it is of interest to find that the Jewish traditions connect Joseph with the area of the Sinai Peninsula saying that he kept a large quantity of treasuries near Baal Zaphon, the scene of the Passage of the Sea.
Hammurabi and the Revised Chronology, Immanuel VelikovskyKing Hammurabi is the best known of the early monarchs of ancient times... belonged to the First BabyIonian Dynasty which came to an end, under circumstances shrouded in mystery, some three or four generations after Hammurabi. For the next several centuries, the land was in the domain of a people known as the Kassites. They left few examples of art and hardly any literary works -- theirs was an age comparable to and contemporaneous with that of the Hyksos in Egypt, and various surmises were made as to the identity of the two peoples. A cartouche of the Hyksos king Khyan was even found in Babylonia and another in Anatolia, a possible indication of the extent of the power and influence wielded by the Hyksos. Until a few decades ago, the reign of Hammurabi was dated to around the year 2100 before the present era... At Platanos on Crete, a seal of the Hammurabi type was discovered in a tomb together with Middle Minoan pottery of a kind associated at other sites with objects of the Twelfth Egyptian Dynasty, more exactly, of its earlier part. This is regarded as proof that these two dynasties were contemporaneous... however... At Mari on the central Euphrates, among other rich material, a cuneiform tablet was found which established that Hammurabi of Babylonia and King Shamshi-Adad I of Assyria were contemporaries. An oath was sworn by the life of these two kings in the tenth year of Hammurabi, The finds at Mari "proved conclusively that Hammurabi came to the throne in Babylonia after the accession of Shamshi-Adad I in Assyria"... The Khorsabad list ends in the tenth year of Assur-Nerari V, which is computed to have been -745... the first year of Shamshi-Adad is calculated to have been -1726 and his last year -1694... it reduced the time of Hammurabi from the twenty-first century to the beginning of the seventeenth century... "a puzzling chronological discrepancy", which could only be resolved by making Hammurabi later than Amenemhet I of the Twelfth Dynasty... If Hammurabi reigned at the time allotted to him by the finds at Mari and Khorsabad -- but according to the finds at Platanos was a contemporary of the Egyptian kings of the early Twelfth Dynasty -- then that dynasty must have started at a time when, according to the accepted chronology, it had already come to its end. In conventionally-written history, by -1680 not only the Twelfth Dynasty, but also the Thirteenth, or the last of the Middle Kingdom, had expired.
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The Arabic oral tradition has even more details concerning Joseph, the chariot given to him, the horse that was to be hitched to the chariot, the Pharaoh`s daughter, the marriage of Joseph to the Pharaoh`s daughter, and Jacob.
Hey I just got an email from Prince Waji! He’s alive and well, although he’s trying to move some money out of his country and needs help.
LOL!
;^)
Marry well Bury well.. I always say
Splendid find.
Would love to go on a dig in Egypt or cruise the Nile to the Temple cities..
“What’s that, girl?....Timmy fell down the well during the Middle Kingdom era?”
>>Meanwhile, Head of the archaeological mission Ayman Ashmawy referred that the well contains three burial chambers
“Well well well... What do we have here?”
I very much doubt there’s any independent original tradition, here’s the English version of Surah Yusuf from the Quran:
In the wikiwacky, there’s this:
“according to historical sources,”
that should be followed with “[citation needed]”, but the wikipeople are braindead ass-kissing leftists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_in_Islam#Use_of_”king”_versus_”pharaoh";
Someday in the distant future some archaeologist will discover the old mine shaft on our old property and call it a ‘burial well’.
(-:
Alright, Larry and Curly...
Sometimes there will be dig opportunities that are basically like a manual labor holiday, the participants pay good money to work like dogs and primitive camp at the dig site. I've never noticed one in Egypt, the Ministry apparently prefers that artifact theft be confined to the local population.
Or maybe just trip over and fall in headfirst..
Joseph died roughly 1640 bc
The Bible recounts that Joseph married Asenath. Though she is a high born Egyptian woman, she is NOT identified as a daughter of Pharaoh. In fact, her line is attributed to a Priest of On.
I am of the opinion that “Arabic oral traditions” may be closer to pure story telling and embellishment, than fact.
And “we” are supposed to get all excited and stuff for .... what?
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