Dr. Campbell Price
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first heard Feb 2026
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So many miles south of the traditional Egyptian border at Aswan.
So a reductive reading is to say that this is a way of intimidating the Nubians.
Look, there are these four colossal statues of the king on one temple.
There's a great rock cut temple with these four striking images, seated images of the king.
But there's another temple dedicated to his wife, Queen Nefertari, the chief queen, whom he seems to have loved very much.
And she's equated with the goddess Hathor.
So they are saying his and hers, the king is a god, the queen is a god, people should come and worship us because we are deserving of worship like full gods.
And this is really an important point.
It's something I've written about
that we've got to understand.
These avatars, these divine avatars of Ramesses, there's a whole series of them.
They all have different names.
They can be materialized through statues and you can worship the statue and hopefully get your prayers answered.
But in the innermost part of that Abu Simbel great temple, the Holy of Holies, there is a seat of the great gods, Ptah, Reharachdi, Amun, and sat quite literally shoulder to shoulder with them is Ramesses II.
And it's really an emphatic point of I am a full god and I have this equivalence to the great gods.
Now, interesting to me is in the decorative scheme, as the interior of this structure was being completed, the decoration, which is probably the 20s of the reign, right?
Yes, okay.
And it seems to be a developing idea because there are clear scenes.
I know you've been to the temple and it's worth looking out on the walls if you go.
There are clearly scenes where there were gods, Amun, the great god of Karnak, his wife, the goddess Mut.
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