Thanos5150 Wrote:
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> Dr. Troglodyte Wrote:
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> > Giza and Dahshur may both be incorrect; Meidum may
> > be the true nexus of Petrie’s confusion.
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> To look again, according to Verner p365-367 there is no
> year 17 date to be found at Dahshur.

The Lepsius lithograph shows a year 16 from Dahshur together with the Giza material. It still could be that conflation of this (in memory) with some other source was the source of Petrie’s mistake.

But more important is that he was mistaken.

M.