Fragment of a stele known as the Royal Annals of the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt
Not to be confused with Palermo Fragment.
Palermo Stone
The Palermo Stone, the fragment of the Egyptian Royal Annals housed in Palermo, Italy
Height
43.5 cm
Width
25 cm
Created
c. 2338 BC
Discovered
before 1859
Present location
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
The Palermo Stone is one of seven surviving fragments of a stele known as the Royal Annals of the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt. The stele contained a list of the kings of Egypt from the First Dynasty (c.3150–2890 BCE) through to the early part of the Fifth Dynasty (c.2392–2283 BCE) and noted significant events in each year of their reigns. It was probably made during the Fifth Dynasty.[1] The Palermo Stone is held in the Regional Archeological Museum Antonio Salinas in the city of Palermo, Italy, from which it derives its name.[2]
The term "Palermo Stone" is sometimes applied to all seven surviving fragments of the Royal Annals, including those held in museums in Cairo and London. The fragments are also sometimes described collectively as the "Cairo Annals Stone",[3] although the term "Cairo Stone" is also used to mean only those fragments of the Royal Annals now in Cairo.
The Palermo Stone and other fragments of the Royal Annals preserve what is probably the oldest historical text that has survived from Ancient Egypt and form a key source for Egyptian history in the Old Kingdom.[4]
^Dodson, Aidan (2004) The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, p.62. Thames & Hudson, ISBN 0-500-05128-3.
^Schirò, Saverio (9 February 2021). "The Palermo Stone and its unsolved mysteries". palermoviva.it.
^Dodson
^Hsu, Hsu, Shih-Wei (2010) The Palermo Stone: the Earliest Royal Inscription from Ancient Egypt, Altoriental. Forsch., Akademie Verlag, 37 (2010) 1, 68–89.
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