Dr. Campbell Price
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But even, gosh, a thousand years later into the Ptolemaic period,
There is a fascinating document, it's now in Paris, called the Bentresch Stela, which describes the sending of a statue of an Egyptian god into the Levant to cure a relative of one of the vassal kingdoms.
And that seems to be a genuine reflection on the great esteem with which Egyptian doctors are viewed.
So it's not just a military thing of, I'll beat you up or we'll have a peace treaty.
If there's a peace treaty, the Egyptian pharaoh might send one of his effective physicians or might send a healing statue of a god.
And so there are real, to ancient people, real palpable benefits, which we might think of as being quite superstitious.
yeah that's that's a nice analogy yeah so so the courts are yeah clearly in communication and they do send gifts between the two of them and that's some kind of assurance and indeed this peace treaty text makes clear that they will you know mutually assure the succession of each kingdom
and help against a third party attacker so that there is that sense of what we would recognize as a modern treaty what started the civil war what ended the conflict in vietnam who was paul revere and did the vikings ever reach america
Yes, yeah, yeah, that's right.
Yeah, impressive.
Yeah, I mean, it must be something also to do with physicality.
So approaching his 30th year on the throne.
So he maybe is approaching 50 by this point, years of age.
he's maybe less inclined to be going out into battle he can still send sons and he's got plenty of sons up to 50 sons but we'll also come back to the sons but in the ancient world if you have been on the throne for 30 years you are a pretty big deal
But that also marks for the ancient Egyptians a very significant milestone, the so-called Heb Sed, which is what we might call a jubilee today, but is a kind of an affirmation of the king's power and a confirmation or a conferral of divinity.
So the king is always a bit divine, but Ramesses II really goes further.
and it does seem to be inspired by this point in time where there's a de-emphasizing of military activity and a greater emphasis on religious
iconography and belief so he really says ramses ii says he's not just part divine he is a full god shoulder to shoulder with other gods and he's represented on temple walls in statues and has his own extraordinary statue cult where people including the military personnel at paramses
are using images, huge colossal statue images of the king as means of answering their prayers.
So we're talking about the southernmost point really in the modern borders of Egypt on the shores of what is now Lake Nasser, so into ancient Nubia.
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