Siptah/Tausert (oct 17, 1196 BC – apr 30, 1194 BC)

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EGYPTIAN CHRONOLOGY THROUGH ASTRONOMICALLY DATED SYNCHRONISMS by Gerard Gertoux

The reign of Queen Tausert is well known (Callender: 2004, 81-104). Wife of Sety II, she exercised after his death a strong influence on his son Siptah (a kind of regency) then, at the latter's death, she continued his reign instead of inaugurating a new one. Sethnakht also began his reign from Siptah's death (Vandersleyen: 1995, 591-593). Egyptian women, as wife or daughter of a Pharaoh, could access the deity, which authorized them to embody and so prolong the reign of a dead pharaoh without successor, but not to begin a new reign.

It is possible to anchor Tausert's reign, and consequently Ramses III’s reign, thanks to a graffito a scribe named Thotemhab left at the Theban temple of Deir el-Bahari, in memory of his participation in the Festival of the Valley. During this annual celebration, the processional statue of Amon passed two nights at the funerary temple of the reigning monarch. The graffito of Thotemhab tells us that in the II Shemu 28 Year 7 of Tausert, the statue of Amon was transported to the mortuary temple. The Beautiful Festival of the Valley was celebrated the day after the 1st lunar day, which implies dating that day 1 (psdntyw) to II Shemu 27 Year 7 of Tausert (Krauss: 2005, 125-127).

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