Xenophon succeeded in adding some 56 net fake years to the Classical Greek
timeline, thus distorting chronology all the way back to the time of
****shak's invasion. That event is now dated 54 years too early to 925
BCE.
Reliable RC14 precise dating for this event points to 54 years later in
871
BCE. The original eclipse dating the Assyrian eponym was actually 709
BCE,
exactly 54 years later than the currently misdated 763 BCE eclipse.
However, there is not continuity between the time of the Exodus during the
Amarna Period and ****shak. Thus when the timeline is corrected and drops
54
years for the Solomonic and Davidic Periods, it still virtually has little
effect on the current current Egyptian timeline for the Amarna Period and
earlier.
For instance, if you date ****shak's invasion in 871 BCE rather than 925
BCE,
then the Exodus gets dated to 1386 BCE. That is both the date you get
using
the KTU 1.78 astrotext as well as the dating for the fall of LBA Jericho
by
Kathleen Kenyon who dates that from 1350-1325 BCE. The corrected
chronology would date the fall of Jericho in this range at 1346 BCE.
CONCLUSION: Egyptian Period dating, based on pottery assemblage and some
RC14 dating, if it follows the "early" dating is relatively unaffected.
The
1st of Akhenaten moves a mere 8 years forward from 1378 to 1386 BCE.
Interestingly this chronology implied that the Assyrian Period was dated
too
early academically, however, ignored by chronologists and archaeologists
alike. Now that RC14 dating has become a sharper tool, the specific
error
from the revision has become more specifically apparent.
CORRECTE DATE TIMELINE HIGHLIGHTS:
1st of Akhenaten/Exodus: 1386 BCE
****shak's Invasion: 871 BCE
Fall of Jerusalem: 529 BCE
1st of Cyrus: 455 BCE
1st of Artaxerxes III: 358 BCE
Lars Wilson
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