Dr. Campbell Price
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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And he does rule for almost 10 years.
So, you know, he does okay.
And he puts his name on wherever there is an empty space because he doesn't have the time to commission new monuments.
He just whaps his name on, whether it's statues of older kings, whether it's columns.
We have an example in Manchester Museum where it's an old or middle kingdom column of granite.
Ramesses II has his name and image worshipping a god on it.
And then Meron Patar has had his name added as well.
So there's this sense of, you know, yeah, fighting against time.
But I think the real success of Men in Bataan, it's a shame he's not better known, is that he actively manages to campaign quite actively against powers from the East and the West and the South.
With time, the dynasty, there's lots of internal struggles for a few generations.
But then by the time of Ramesses III, you get active incursions
You get the Sea Peoples, this kind of motley crew of people from the Mediterranean.
You get the Libyans actively coming over and being quite threatening.
And all of this seems to be held at bay by Mehret Batar.
So he maybe gets...
undeservedly short shrift because he's overshadowed by his father and people often say Ramesses III is the last great king of ancient Egypt but Meron Ptah must have had a pretty involved training in his youth
So maybe he's in his 60s, not actively going out fighting, but he's able to, I guess, reflect on his experience of being the son of Ramses II and strategize to head off problems which become serious problems in the decades after his reign.
Yes, absolutely.
And I think there was always that looking for an opportunity when religiously, theologically, it's a very vulnerable time for the country between the change of monarch.
I mean, there is something, without forcing modern parallels on it, there was something about the death of Elizabeth II where people were really kind of shaken by it.
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