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Base of a statuette of Ramesses II
General Information

The rectangular base with two holes for fixing a statuette. According to the inscriptions placed on the right (1) and left (2) sides of the base, the statuette represented Ramesses II.

Number 18058
Storing Place State Hermitage Museum - Petersburg - Russia
Material Sandstone
Type Statue
Type of Script Hieroglyphic
Width 3.3 cm
Height 7.5 cm
Historical Period The Nineteenth Dynasty – The New Kingdom
Inscriptions on the Monument
Transliteration
( If the Hieroglyphic,Demotic or Hieratic text is not appearing clear, install this file )

(1) wsr-mAat-ra stp-n-ra sA ra ra-ms-sw mr(i)-imn (2) --- sA ra ra-ms-sw mr(i)-imn


Translation

(1) Usermaatre-Setepenre, Son of Re, Ramesses-Meriamun (2) - - - Son of Re, Ramesses-Meriamun

Scientific Publishing

N.B. Landa, I.A. Lapis, Egyptian Antiquities in the Hermitage, (Leningrad, 1974), pl.34.

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