The Saqqara Tablet, also known as the Saqqara King List or the Saqqara Table, now in the Egyptian Museum, is an ancient stone engraving surviving from the Ramesside Period of Egypt which features a list of pharaohs. It was found in 1861 in Saqqara, in the tomb of Tjuneroy (or Tjenry), an official ("chief lector priest" and "Overseer of Works on All Royal Monuments") of the pharaoh Ramesses II.^[1]

The inscription lists fifty-eight kings, from Anedjib (First Dynasty) to Ramesses II (Nineteenth Dynasty), in reverse chronological order. The names (each surrounded by a border known as a cartouche), of which only forty-seven survive, are badly damaged. As with other Egyptian king lists, the Saqqara Tablet omits certain kings and entire dynasties. The list counts backward from Ramesses II to the mid-point of the First Dynasty, except for the Eleventh and Twelfth Dynasties, which are reversed. A well known photograph of the king list was published in 1865.^[2] Detailed and high resolution images are able to be viewed online and inside the book Inside the Egyptian Museum with Zahi Hawass ^[3] Each cartouche ends with the phrase ma'a, meaning "the justified", which was typical for honouring deceased kings.

Like with other Ramesside lists, the Saqqara Tablet omits the names of "rulers from the Second Intermediate Period, the Hyksos, and those rulers... who had been close to the heretic Akhenaten".^[4] Despite being nearly a slimmed down copy of the Abydos King List, the Saqqara Tablet has some notable changes. For example, Neferirkare Kakai is listed under his prenomen Neferirkare like with every other pharaoh in the list, despite being listed under his nomen Kakai in the Abydos King List. Also, Neferkare I, Neferkasokar, Hudjefa, Huni and Sobekneferu are listed in the Saqqara Tablet, despite being absent in the Abydos King List. Likewise, Nyuserre Ini and Userkare are absent for some unknown reason, despite being present in the Abydos King List. In addition, the early rulers of the First Dynasty (Menes/Narmer, Hor-Aha, Djer, Djet, Den, and Semerkhet) are all excluded from the Saqqara Tablet for some unknown reason, despite being present in the Abydos King List. The Saqqara Tablet additionally omits all kings who reigned between Pepi II and Mentuhotep II.

The names are listed in reverse chronological order from the upper right to the bottom left, as they were meant to be read. Pharaohs that are known have the damaged part of the inscribed name in parentheses.

#	Pharaoh	Name written in the list	Hieroglyphs
1.	Ramesses II	(Usermaatre) setepenre
2.	Seti I	(Men)maat(re)
3.	Ramesses I	Men(pehtire)

#	Pharaoh	Name written in the list	Hieroglyphs
4.	Horemheb	(Djeserkheperure) setepen(re)
5.	Names lost
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.	Amenhotep I	Djeserkare
12.	Ahmose I	Nebpehtire

#	Pharaoh	Name written in the list	Hieroglyphs
13.	Mentuhotep II	Nebhepetre
14.	Mentuhotep III	Seankhkare

#	Pharaoh	Name written in the list	Hieroglyphs
15.	Amenemhat I	Sehetepibre
16.	Senusret I	Kheperkare
17.	Amenemhat II	Nubkaure
18.	Senusret II	Khakheperre
19.	Senusret III	Khakhaure
20.	Amenemhat III	(Nimaat)re	or
21.	Amenemhat IV	Maakherure
22.	Sobekneferu	Kasobekre

#	Pharaoh	Name written in the list	Hieroglyphs
23.	Pepi II Neferkare	Neferkare
24.	Merenre Nemtyemsaf I	Merenre
25.	Pepi I Meryre	Pepi
26.	Teti	Teti

#	Pharaoh	Name written in the list	Hieroglyphs
27.	Unas	Unis
28.	Djedkare Isesi	Maatkare
29.	Menkauhor Kaiu	Menkauhor

#	Pharaoh	Name written in the list	Hieroglyphs
30.	Neferefre	Khaneferre
31.	Shepseskare	Shepseskare
32.	Neferirkare Kakai	Neferirkare
33.	Sahure	Sahure
34.	Userkaf	Userka(f)

#	Pharaoh	Name written in the list	Hieroglyphs
35.	Names lost
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.	Khafre	Khaf(re)
41.	Djedefre	Djedefre
42.	Khufu	Khufu
43.	Sneferu	Sneferu

#	Pharaoh	Name written in the list	Hieroglyphs
44.	Huni	Huni	or or
45.	Nebka	Nebkare
46.	Sekhemkhet	Djoser-teti
47.	Djoser	Djoser

#	Pharaoh	Name written in the list	Hieroglyphs
48.	Khasekhemwy	Bebti
49.	Hudjefa I	Hudjefa	or
50.	Sekhemib-Perenmaat?	Neferkasokar
51.	Sneferka?	Neferkare
52.	Seth-Peribsen?	Senedj
53.	Wadjenes	Wadjlas
54.	Nynetjer	Banetjeru
55.	Nebra	Kakau
56.	Hotepsekhemwy	Baunetjer

#	Pharaoh	Name written in the list	Hieroglyphs
57.	Qa'a	Qebehu
58.	Anedjib	Merbapen

As names 5-10 and 35-39 are missing or badly damaged, the following names are suggested to have once been listed here. Jürgen von Beckerath proposes king Nyuserre as the holder of cartouche #35; he thinks it is possible that Nyuserre was simply misplaced to the beginning of the 5th Dynasty. The Saqqara king list would therefore give the following succession: Khafre → Bikheris → Menkaure → Shepseskaf → Thamphthis → Nyuserrê → Userkaf.^[5] However, in recent years, it's been thought that the holder of cartouche #35 should actually be Queen Khentkaus; which would make the Saqqara king list succession be: Khafre → Bikheris → Menkaure → Shepseskaf → Thamphthis → Khentkaus → Userkaf.^[6][7] Note that this reconstruction is based on other kings lists and circumstantial evidence.

#	Pharaoh	Name likely written in the list	Possible hieroglyphs
5.	Amenhotep III	(Nebmaatre)	or
6.	Thutmose IV	(Menkheperure)
7.	Amenhotep II	(Aakheperure)
8.	Thutmose III	(Menkheperre)
9.	Thutmose II	(Aakheperenre)
10.	Thutmose I	(Aakheperkare)

#	Pharaoh	Name likely written in the list	Possible hieroglyphs
35.	Nyuserre Ini or Khentkaus I	(Nyuserre)?, (Khentkaus)?	(if Nyuserre) or (if Khentkaus)
36.	Thamphthis?	(Djedefptah)?, (Djedefkaf)?, (Djedefhor)?	(if Djedefptah) or (if Djedefkaf)
37.	Shepseskaf	(Shepseskaf)
38.	Menkaure	(Menkaure)
39.	Bikheris?	(Bakare)?, (Baufra)?

• Abydos King List
• Manetho King List
• Karnak King List
• Palermo Stone
• Ramesseum king list
• Turin King List
• Medinet Habu king list

• Auguste Mariette: La table de Saqqarah in Revue Archeologique Vol 10, Paris 1864, p. 168-186, Pl. 17
• Emmanuel de Rougé: Album photographique de la mission remplie en Égypte, Paris 1865, Photographs, No. 143-145
• Auguste Mariette: Monuments divers recueillis en Égypte et en Nubie (Tables), Paris 1872, Vol. II, Pl. 58
• Eduard Meyer: Ägyptische Chronologie, Pl. 1, (Berlin 1904)