Biography of Ramesses III

By Scriptural Research Institute

Ramesses III was the king of Egypt between circa 1186 and 1155 BC, after inheriting the throne from his father Setnakhte, the founder of the 20th Dynasty. Setnakhte had seized power after the previous Pharaoh Queen Twosret died at the end of the 19th dynasty. It is unclear if he was descended from the royal family, however, he refused to recogni

• Language: English
• Publisher: Digital Ink Productions
• Release date: Nov 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781989852828

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Biography of Ramesses III

Memories of the New Kingdom, Volume 7

SCRIPTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Published by Digital Ink Productions, 2023

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While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

Biography of Ramesses III

Digital edition. October 14, 2023

Copyright © 2023 Scriptural Research Institute.

ISBN: 978-1-989852-82-8

These English translations were created by the Scriptural Research Institute in 2020, primarily from the Hieratic and Hieroglyphic copies of the texts published in the past century, or when possible, high-resolution photographs of the steles. Additionally, the following translations and commentaries were consulted for comparison: K. Sethe’s Urkunden der 18. Dynastie (1914), E. A. Wallis Budge’s The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians (1914), James Henry Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt (1906).

The image used for the cover is an artistic reinterpretation of ‘Israel in Egypt’ by Edward John Poynter, painted in 1867.

Note: The notes for this book include multiple ancient scripts. For your convenience, fonts correctly depicting these scripts are embedded in the ebook. If your reader does not support embedded fonts, you will need to install Unicode fonts that cover the ranges for Arabic, Cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Greek, Hebrew, Linear B, Old Italic, Phoenician, Tifinagh, Ugaritic on your reader manually, or you may see blank areas, question marks, or squares where the scripts are used. The Noto fonts from Google cover most of the scripts used, however, will not depict Egyptian hieroglyphs, Libyco-Berber, or Neo-Babylonian cuneiform, Neshite (Hittite) cuneiform correctly due to current limitations in Unicode.

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Ramesses III was the king of Egypt between circa 1186 and 1155 BC, after inheriting the throne from his father Setnakhte, the founder of the 20th Dynasty. Setnakhte had seized power after the previous Pharaoh Queen Twosret