Dr. Campbell Price
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And the figure of Ramesses has been inserted as an afterthought.
So it's not part of the original scheme.
So someone has had the thought of,
actually will put the king here.
It's rare you can see a developing theology but that is something where the idea of Ramses' god has not been originally planned but developed with the building.
Yeah, he must be proud of the military, albeit we might consider it a drawn out.
But it's kind of a challenge, and we know other earlier kings did this, a challenge to his successors to maintain his boundaries and maintain his sphere of influence, if we want to call it that.
And because he lived so long, we know this in various instances throughout history, if you spend a long time on the throne, it is more difficult for the eventual successor, especially if, like Rama says, you have 50 sons.
And sure, many of them died.
He was eventually succeeded by his 13th son, Mirabhatta.
But there are other sons.
I mean, the fourth son is especially interesting to me, Prince Khayyam Waset.
He is credited by some with being the first Egyptologist because he is the one who goes around labeling the pyramids.
So he's the high priest of the god Ptah at Memphis, so near modern Cairo.
And in that role, he is very aware of the sacred landscape, which is, you know,
littered with massive pyramids but to a son of Ramesses II to go out into the desert and to see not that far into the desert still visible from the flood plain but to see a monument that's so vast so impressive so pristine without any hieroglyphs on it telling you who the king is this seems crazy the son of a megalomaniac like Ramesses II so he goes along and inscribes
very deep elaborate inscriptions what have been called by one great Scottish Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen as the largest museum label in the world telling future generations this is the pyramid of Khufu this is the pyramid of Unas this is the pyramid of Djoser
And I, Prince Kawamwasa, have restored the name of this king because it was not found on the surface of his monument.
And I'm the son of the great King Ramesses II.
So Ramesses II gets his name put on all of these ancient monuments.
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