The History of Egypt Podcast

185: House of the Rising Son

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Ramesses II: Prince of Egypt. When Sety I took power, his eldest son was probably 10—15 years old. The King's Son Ra-messes (“Born of Ra”) enjoyed a privileged upbringing. And by the time he was physically mature, the young prince was ready to expand the royal household. His father Sety had some plans in that regard…

Details and sources:

  • Date: c. 1299 BCE.
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  • Music intro: Keith Zizza.
  • Music interludes and outro: Luke Chaos.
  • Texts: Kenneth Kitchen's Ramesside Inscriptionsvolume 1. Hieroglyph versions at Internet Archive, English translations at Abercromby Press.
  • Peter Brand, Ramesses II: Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh, out now from Lockwood Press.
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    • Select Bibliography:

    • P. J. Brand, The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic, Historical and Art Historical Analysis (2000).
    • P. J. Brand, Ramesses II: Egypt’s Ultimate Pharaoh (2023).
    • A. Dodson and D. Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt (2004).
    • M. M. Fisher, The Sons of Ramesses II (2001).
    • D. C. Forbes, The Royal Mummies Caches (TT320 & KV35) (2015).
    • W. Grajetzki, Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary (2005).
    • J. E. Harris and K. R. Weeks, X-Raying the Pharaohs (1973).
    • Z. Hawass and S. N. Saleem, Scanning the Pharaohs: CT Imaging in the New Kingdom Royal Mummies (2016).
    • K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions Historical and Biographical, III (1980).
    • K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions Translated and Annotated: Translations, II (2017).
    • W. J. Murnane, ‘The Earlier Reign of Ramesses II and His Coregency with Sety I’, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 34 (1975), 153–90.
    • K. C. Seele, The Coregency of Ramses II with Seti I and the Date of the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak (1940).
    • A. J. Spalinger, The Great Dedicatory Inscription of Ramesses II: A Solar-Osirian Tractate at Abydos (2009).
    • J. Tyldesley, Ramesses: Egypt’s Greatest Pharaoh (2001).
    • J. Tyldesley, Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt (2006).
    • T. Wilkinson, Ramesses the Great: Egypt’s King of Kings (2023).

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