Secession of Abydos Dinasty
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Creation of one of the many local dynasties that emerged in Ancient Egypt during the second intermediate period.
Chronology
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January 1649 BC: The discovery of the tomb of an unknown pharaoh, Senebkay, accredits the thesis of a possible local dynasty, baptized "Dynasty of Abydos" which would be parallel to the XVth and XVIth dynasties.
January 1599 BC: The Abydos Dynasty disappeared approximately in 1600 BC.
Selected Sources
"Giant Sarcophagus Leads Penn Museum Team in Egypt To the Tomb of a Previously Unknown Pharaoh". Penn Museum. January 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2014 on https://web.archive.org/web/20150420164031/http://www.penn.museum/press-releases/1032-pharaoh-senebkay-discovery-josef-wegner.html
Detlef Franke, « Zur Chronologie des Mittleren Reiches. Teil II: Die sogenannte Zweite Zwischenzeit Altägyptens », dans : Orientalia 57 (1988), p. 259
Kim Steven Bardrum Ryholt, The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c. 1800–1550 BC, Copenhague, Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997, 463 p
