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Only One King Siptaḥ and Twosre Not His Wife Author(s): Alan Gardiner Source: The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 44 (Dec., 1958), pp. 12-22 Published by: Egypt Exploration Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3855059 Accessed: 26/05/2010 07:48 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=ees. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
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ONLY ONE KING SIPTAH AND TWOSRE NOT HIS WIFE By SIR ALAN GARDINER
THE conclusions announced in the heading to the present article are in flat contra-
diction of what I stated, or at all events implied, in an earlierarticle published no more than four years ago. The evidence here to be adduced is, however, quite distinct from that which I previously used, and must, I think, first of all be considered on its own merits. This having been done, it will remain to discuss whether the contradiction
cannot be somehow disposed of. In I912 there appeared,much delayed in the printing, an article by Daressy showing that on King Sethos II's death in his sixth year he was succeeded by a Q(opFQe. I._ Racmesse-Siptah with the prenomen (4PJ^
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Sekha(enr&e-setpenrZe.IThis un-
equivocal information was furnished by a limestone ostracon found in the Biban elMoluk by Theodore Davis and better edited later by Cerny in his catalogue of the hieratic ostraca in the Cairo Museum.2 Just about the same time that Daressy wrote his paper the same prenomen and nomen came to light in a graffito discovered by Barsanti at Abu Simbel and published by Maspero in Ann. Serv. IO, I3I ff.3 Neither scholarwas at the time awareof the discovery disclosed by the other, but their reaction was the same in both cases. In his excavation of the Serapeum of Memphis half a century earlier Mariette had found a small vase with the cartouches of Neferkaret Ramesses IX contained within a largervase inscribed with the prenomen Sekhacenremeryamun and the nomen Ra(messe-Siptah4and on the strength of this material proximity had argued that the Ra
