Notebook of notes on Cyprus, Gaza, Jericho, Egypt and Syria (chronologies)Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

Egypt: End of Middle Kingdom - Hyksos.

Extract E. Drioton - J. Vandier, L'Egypte, p. 275 et seq.

, on pasted slip: [?LgAlbright (JPOS, XV / p. 225) place begnn^g / of Hyksos Per. juste / avant 1720 B.C.Hyksos / citation / ManéthonI. Egypt before the Hyksos (1785-1680(?)) Still a fairly prosperous period in the delta, and kings reigned still over all Egypt. Even their power still respected in Syria, in at any rate at Byblos a stela was found with dedication to Khasekhemre Neferhotep (13^th king of the XIII^th-XIV^th dyn. 1785-1680 out of 30). According to Manetho, Djednefere Didoumes = contemporary of the Hyksos (23^rd pharaoh of the XIII^th-XIV^th dyn.) ends in 1680, so prob. end of 18^th c. (1700). In fact these must already have been settled in the Delta Δ eastern, but it is prob. only at that time, so around 1700 that the great Asiatic push occurred towards the South, see below). / E / 16] II. The Hyksos 1700(?) - 1580. Manetho (after Josephus) says: Under his reign (Timaos), divine anger blew against us, I do not know why, and unexpectedly, men of an unknown race, coming from the East, had the audacity to invade our country, and, without difficulty or battle, took it by force. These people seized the cities temples chiefs, burned savagely the cities, razed the temples of the gods and treated the natives with the utmost cruelty, slaughtering some, taking as slaves the children and the women. In the end, they … continues