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Definition of Ramses ii
1. Noun. King of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments.
Generic synonyms: Rameses, Ramesses, Ramses
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ramses Ii
Literary usage of Ramses ii
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"Some things have come to us of the literature of the times ; chiefly the poem
which Ramses II had composed and written on the walls of the temples to ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"Ramses II. is without doubt the greatest figure in the long line of the Pharaohs,
and at the same time ho is the one of whose character we have the best ..."
3. Egyptological Researches by Wilhelm Max Müller (1906)
"A LIST OF ramses ii IN KARNAK. (PLATE 59-) On the south wall of the temple of
Karnak, separated by the door from Ramses IPs great list of Palestinian towns ..."
4. London and Its Environs: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm), Karl Baedeker (1911)
"Central Egyptian Saloon chiefly contains antiquities of the time of Ramses II., the
Pharaoh of the Oppression (14th cent. BC). In the middle, 965. ..."
5. The Story of the Pharaohs by James Baikie (1908)
"CHAPTER XI THE STRUGGLE FOR SYRIA—SETY I. AND ramses ii. ... Sety I. to carry
out the main body of the work, and for his grandson Ramses II. to complete it. ..."
6. Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents from the Earliest Times to by James Henry Breasted (1906)
"See Great Abydos Inscription of Ramses II, 1. 29. sA series of incidents in the
myth of the god are now dramatically enacted by the priests as the ..."
7. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1879)
"Now, as Joseph belongs to the later time of the Shepherds, the Exodus would fall
about the end, or after the end, of the reign of Ramses II. ; and here, ..."
8. Egypt: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1902)
"On each side in the GATEWAY is Ramses II. before various deities. ... Ramses
II., Ramses IV., and Ramses VI.) are of little interest On the S. side are the ..."
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