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Tile from the walls of Throne Room in Palace of Ramesses II - Met Museum Collection

Inventory Number: 35.1.28 New Kingdom, Ramesside, Dynasty 19, ca. 1279–1213 B.C. Location Information: From Egypt, Eastern Delta, Qantir (Piramesse), Palace of Ramesses II

Description:

This tile once decorated the palace of Ramesses II in Piramesse, which he made into one of the greatest royal cities of ancient Egypt. Thanks to the royal favor and its strategic location, Piramesse soon became an important international trade center and a cosmopolitan metropolis, boasting a harbor, a military base, and temples dedicated to various gods like Amun-Re-Harakhty-Atum, Seth, Astarte, etc.

This rectangular relief plaque shows a Nubian raising his arms in adoration, and was probably set into the lower registers of wall decoration in the public rooms of the palace.

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'Monumental' building complex discovered at Qantir in Egypt's Nile Delta

At the ancient city of Piramesse, which was Egypt's capital during the reign of the King Ramses II, an excavation team from the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim in Germany has uncovered parts of a building complex as well as a mortar pit with children’s footprints.

The head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Department at Egypt’s antiquities ministry, Mahmoud Afifi, describes the newly discovered building complex as "truly monumental," covering about 200 by 160 metres.

The layout suggests the complex was likely a palace or a temple, Afifi told Ahram Online.

The mission director, Henning Franzmeier, explained magnetic measurements were carried out last year in order to determine the structure of the ancient city, and through those measurements the building complex was located. Read more.

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