Definition of Ramesses ii

1. Noun. King of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Ramesses Ii

Rambo
Rambo knife
Rambo knifes
Rambouillet
Rambourg's chromic acid-phosphotungstic acid stain
Rambourg's stains
Ramean
Rameans
Rameau
Rameses
Rameses II
Rameses the Great
Ramesh
Ramesses
Ramesses II
Ramesses the Great
Ramist
Ramists
Ramman
Ramon Lully
Ramon y Cajal
Ramona
Ramos gin fizz
Ramphastidae
Ramphomicron
Ramsar
Ramsay
Ramsay Hunt
Ramsay Hunt's syndrome

Literary usage of Ramesses ii

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bas-reliefs from the Temple of Rameses I at Abydos by Herbert Eustis Winlock (1921)
"the glaze being a greenish blue, with the hieroglyphs of the names and titles of Ramesses II drawn on it in black outline.18 The more simply inscribed of ..."

2. A Self-verifying Chronological History of Ancient Egypt: From the Foundation by Orlando P. Schmidt (1899)
"Again, the son of this supposed Amenophis was named Sethos (Seti II), but was familiarly called Ramesses after his grandfather Ramesses II. ..."

3. Metaphysical Inquiry Into Method, Objects, and Result of Ancient and Modern by Isaac Preston Cory (1833)
"The same remark may perhaps tend to solve the question, whether the names and signets of Ramesses II. belong to one or to two kings, by showing that the ..."

4. The Story of Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson, Arthur Gilman (1892)
"... 236—His great wall, 237—Hittite war of Ramesses II., 238-240—Poem of ... 246, 247—Colossi of Ramesses II., 248— Ramesses II. the great oppressor of the ..."

5. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1917)
"... comes down to his own day and designates it by the new name imposed on it by his great contemporary, Ramesses II, to wit: The "Land of Ramesses. ..."

6. Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson, Arthur Gilman (1886)
"... 236—His great wall, 237—Hittite war of Ramesses II., 238-240—Poem of ... 246, 247—Colossi of Ramesses II., 248— Ramesses II. the great oppressor of the ..."

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