Editing Ramesses X (section)

==Reign==
His accession day fell on 1 ''prt'' 27 (first month of the Winter season, day 27).<ref>J. von Beckerath, GM 79 (1984), 8-9</ref> His highest attested regnal year is year 3; the highest attested date in his reign is either "year 3, second month of the [[Season of the Inundation|Inundation season]], day 2"<ref>Botti & Peet, Il Giornale della Necropoli, 55</ref> or possibly "year 3, month 4 (no day given)".<ref>Botti & Peet, Il Giornale della Necropoli, 55, txt d</ref> However, a later 20th Dynasty papyrus fragment from [[Deir el-Medina]] published in 2023 by Egyptologist Robert Demarée refers to a partial date of Year 4, third month of Inundation [or Akhet] together with a change to Year 1, month 4 of Inundation. Although both kings are unnamed, it is strongly suggested by Demarée to refer to the reigns of Ramesses X and his successor Ramesses XI. If confirmed, this would mean that Ramesses X ruled for 3 years and 10 months or nearly 4 years before he died.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Demarée |first1=Robert J. |title=Two Papyrus Fragments with Historically Relevant Data |journal=Rivista del Museo Egizio |date=2023 |volume=7 |doi=10.29353/rime.2023.5078 |url=https://rivista.museoegizio.it/article/two-papyrus-fragments-with-historically-relevant-data/ |access-date=25 November 2023 |doi-access=free |archive-date=1 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231201124322/https://rivista.museoegizio.it/article/two-papyrus-fragments-with-historically-relevant-data/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Giornale dell'anno 3 di Ramesse X PAP8807.tif|thumb|right|Journal from year 3 of Ramesses X's reign, from [[Deir el-Medina]], between 1110 and 1107 BC. [[Museo Egizio]], Turin.]]

The only other 20th Dynasty king who died in his regnal Year 4 was [[Ramesses V]] but this ruler died around the time interval between the first and second month of [[Season of the Emergence|Peret]]<ref>Jürgen von Beckerath, Chronologie des Pharaonischen Ägypten. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, (1997), pp.201-202</ref> So, the papyrus document above cannot refer to Ramesses V.

The older theory put forward on astronomical grounds by [[Richard Anthony Parker|Richard Parker]] that Ramesses X may have reigned for 9 years,<ref>R.A. Parker, The Length of the Reign of Ramesses X, RdÉ 11 (1951), 163-164</ref> has since been abandoned.
Likewise, the suggested ascription of Theban graffito 1860a to a hypothetical year 8 of Ramesses X<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bierbrier |first1=M. L. |title=A Second High Priest Ramessesnakht? |journal=The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology |date=1972 |volume=58 |pages=195–199 |doi=10.2307/3856249}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bierbrier |first1=M. L. |title=The Length of the Reign of Ramesses X |journal=The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology |date=1975 |volume=61 |pages=251 |doi=10.2307/3856515}}</ref> is no longer supported.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bell |first1=L. D. |title=Only One High Priest Ramessesnakht and the Second Prophet Nesamun His Younger Son |journal=Serapis |date=1980 |volume=6 |pages=7-27}}</ref>