| He takes as a starting date the end of the New Kingdom, calculated from the disputed Sothic date referred to above. |
| The greatest aid in fixing Egyptian chronology is the sothic Cycle. |
| The chronologies offered in most publications up to 1985 have been thrown into some doubt for the Middle and New kingdoms by a restudy of the evidence for the Sothic and especially the lunar dates. |
| It is this sothic period which Manetho has employed in his account of Egyptian history. |
| An illustration will show how the sothic cycle helps in determining dates. |
| Of Meyer's four Sothic dates, the oldest has been abandoned and there is uncertainty about the second. |
