User talk:Captmondo/Archives/2006/October

Tutankhamun
Dear captmondo, I noticed your Wiki comments on the Great Pyramid of Giza and agree that it is full of crackpot ideas. But what was your main problem with the article on Tutankhamun? I visited it a few minutes ago and it seems to be pretty reasonable on the whole. No Osman or Rohlist ideas here, fortunately. BTW, I wouldn't generally touch Unresolved Mysteries of Egypt but the first king of Egypt has to be Narmer, not Hor Aha. Egyptologists have now found two separate inscriptions at Umm el Qaab which show that the 1st Dynasty kings regarded Narmer as the first king of their Dynasty, not Aha. BTW, how's life in Beaches, Toronto? Is it on Toronto's wterfront. Politically, Toronto seems to be a stronghold of the Federal Liberals or NDPers. As for me, I voted Conservative in Surrey BC--for a change--this year but got a Liberal MP. I can't complain though; my previous Tory MP was Gurmant Grewal! Remember him, the guy with the hidden microphone. Yikes. At least our new Liberal MP, Sukh Dhaliwal, hasn't done anything embarrassing. Leoboudv 02:55, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

The reference to several minor 8th Dynasty Pharaohs who STILL ruled all of Egypt is well known. The Old Kingdom Dynasty didn't immediatedly collapse after after Pepi II's reign. The Abydos Canon lists a total of 17 minor kings 8th Dynasty kings who ruled after the shortlived reign of Merenre II, son of Pepi II. Here is Gardiner's 1963 treatment of the Old Kingdom where an 8th Dynasty Pharaoh named Neferkare is mentioned together with his Vizier Shemai in a Year 1 stela from his reign. I can give you a copy of the table which is published by Kim Ryholt in ZAS 127 (2000), pp.99-100. Ryholt notes that a nomen of king Neferkauhor is preserved on a decree from Koptos. There is also the small pyramid tomb of Qakare Ibi who is asigned a reign of 2 Years and 1 month. His prenomen is written incorrectly as Qakaure in the Turin Kinglist but definitely refer to the smae king. Ibi is mentioned in line 5.10 of the Turin Canon. (p.91 of Ryholt article) The Turin Canon's coverage of the Late Old Kingdom was damaged and 10 of these kings were lost in a lacunae. I have scans of Ryholt's article--titled The Late Old Kingdom in the Turin King-List and the Identity of Nitocris. This information is worth considering on Wikipedia's coverage of the 8th Dynasty. It was only after this Dynasty that the Old Kingdom collapsed but from Neferkare and Ibi's monuments, you can tell the end was close and Egypt was nearing collapse. Regards, Leoboudv 20:12, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Occur/r/ed
Sorry about that, I didn't check the spelling in other varieties of English, although I am aware of the policy. Could you please give me any source on the British spelling of occurred? I checked some British dictionaries, and they suggested the spelling of occurred, just like American. Thanks, Mar de Sin   Speak up!  02:12, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Also, Wiktionary has the word occurred but not occured. If occured and occuring is used Commonwealth English, I wouldn't think its usage or acceptance is wide. If the spelling occured is accepted in British/Commonwealth spelling, I would appreciate any sources that support this. Thanks! Mar de Sin  Speak up!  19:40, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the link! It's a really good source, but other sources seem to contradict.  But I agree that better time should be spent elsewhere, and manually correcting typos and misspellings becomes horribly repetitive.  Once again, thanks!  Mar de Sin   Speak up!  22:12, 16 October 2006 (UTC)