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Funerary Figurine of Ramesses II
Wood, New Kingdom, Dynasty XIX, end of the reign of Ramesses II (c. 1213 B.C.)
from Thebes, 08.480.5, Charles Edwin Wilbour fund
Photo © Joan Lansberry, May 2008
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From the Museum website: "The color and style of this relief strongly suggest not only that it came from the temple of Ramesses II at Abydos but also that it was carved in the first two years of his reign, perhaps by the same artists who decorated the adjacent temple of his predecessor, Seti I. The aquiline nose and the fat folds on the throat are particularly characteristic of Nineteenth Dynasty relief. Ramesses is shown with arms raised in a gesture of offering or worship." The following I include, because it was likely Ramesses II's ring:
Glazed steatite and bronze New Kingdom, XIX Dynasty, ca. 1279-1213 B.C.E. ?, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
"The scarab ring lacks his prenomen, but has an associated epithet ("Beloved of Amun") and his nomen, or birth name (Ramesses)" |


