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Relief depicting Ramesses II with his mother
General Information

Relief depicting Ramesses II with his mother. They are both bearing offerings to Osiris who is seated on a throne on the left. Above the figures there are hieroglyphic inscription.

Number 5091
Storing Place Kunsthistorisches Museum - Vienna - Austria
Material Limestone
Type Fragment of a wall
Type of Script Hieroglyphic
Discovery Place Giza - Giza Governate - Egypt
Width 46.5 cm
Height 53.5 cm
Thickness 6 cm
Historical Period The Nineteenth Dynasty – The New Kingdom
Inscriptions on the Monument
Translation

1) Osiris, [Lord] of Rosetau, the Great God, Lord of heaven. (2) Lord of the Two Lands, User-Maat-Re Setep-en-Re, (3) Lord of crowns Ramesses, beloved of Amun, god and ruler of Heliopolis. (4) The lady (?) of the Two Lands Tuya.

Scientific Publishing

H. Gauthier, Livre des Rois III, 74-75, A. 1.
K. Mysliwiec, Le portrait royal, (1976) fig. 261-262.
K.A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions, Translated and Annotated: Translations. Vol. II (1996) 552, 297, 617.
W.M.F. Petrie, A History of Egypt III, 2 (1918) 9 u. 33.

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