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The period of Ancient Egyptian history known as wehem mesut or, more commonly, Whm Mswt (Manuel de Codage transliteration: wHm msw.t) can be literally translated as ''Repetition of Births'', but is usually referred to as the ''(Era of the) Renaissance''. ==Date== The Whm Mswt forms part of the reign of Ramesses XI, a king who ruled around the end of the New Kingdom and the start of the Third Intermediate Period.〔Andrzej Niwinski, Bürgerkrieg, militärischer Staatsstreich und Ausnahmezustand in Ägypten unter Ramses XI. Ein Versuch neuer Interpretation der alten Quellen (war, military coup d'etat and exceptional situations in Egypt under Rameses XI: An attempt at new interpretation of old sources )〕 In his 19th year he began to count anew, with year 1 of the Whm Mswt perhaps identical to, but at least partly overlapping with his 19th regnal year, as can be seen from the headings of two lists of thieves, known as the Abbott Dockets.〔T. Eric Peet, The Great Tomb-robberies of the Twentieth Egyptian Dynasty, Oxford, 1930, 128〕 These read: -Year 1, first month of inundation, day 2, corresponding to Year 19 -Year 1, second month of inundation, day 24, corresponding to Year 19 For a long time it was unclear where the Whm Mswt should be placed chronologically. Since the reign of Ramesses IX lasted into its 19th year, the Abbott Dockets were sometimes taken as evidence that the era immediately followed his reign and might perhaps even have been identical to (a phase of) the reign of Ramesses X.〔T. Eric Peet, JEA 14 (1928), 65-73〕 This seemed to be confirmed by the fact that both the years 16 and 17 of Ramesses IX and the first two years of the Whm Mswt saw a series of court sessions connected with tomb-robbery.〔T. Eric Peet, The Great Tomb-robberies of the Twentieth Egyptian Dynasty, Oxford, 1930〕 It was Jaroslav Černý who convincingly showed that the era started in year 19 of Ramesses XI.〔Jaroslav Černý, JEA 15 (1929), 194-198; ZÄS 65 (1930), 129-130〕 Although generally accepted, as a side effect his solution created an interval of over two decades between the two series of tomb-robbery trials, which created some anomalies for the tomb-robbery papyri.〔Ad Thijs, Reconsidering the End of the Twentieth Dynasty, Part I, Göttinger Miszellen GM 167 (1998), 95-108; Reconsidering the End of the Twentieth Dynasty, Part II, Göttinger Miszellen 170 (1999), 83-99〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wehem Mesut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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