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The Palermo Stone |
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It is supposed to have originally been about 2 metres long and 60 cm tall. The Palermo Stone is named after the Sicilian city to which it was given in 1877. Smaller fragments can be found at the Cairo Museum and at the British Museum in London. It was redacted in Niuserra’s time and its sides report a long list of successions going from the beginning of the 1st Dinasty to the third pharaoh of the 5th one. It probably had a chronological function and was used as a calendar in the Temple of Ptah in Memphis. An extremely valuable document. On the first of the remained lines it is possible to see the names, never documented before, of kings of Lower and Upper Egypt, the last of which was probably Narmer. Since the reign of Aha some significant events have been listed for every single year of reign. At the end of every reign the months and the days between the sovereign’s death and the beginning of the year used to be recorded. The most recurring events written on the Palermo Stone are ascensions to the throne, various ceremonies, processions of the Horus followers, censuses, battles and princes births.
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The Palermo Stone is a black diorite fragment whose two sides report a list of
kings, the names of their mothers and the level reached every year by the floods
of the 