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Surroundings:

Thebes, Ramesseum, Relief of the opening of the mouth of Tia, son-in-law of Ramesses IIThebes, Ramesseum, Statue of Queen Tuya (mother of Ramesses II)Thebes, Ramesseum, Statue of Queen Tuya (mother of Ramesses II)Thebes, Ramesseum (Mortuary temple of Ramesses II)Thebes, Colossi of MemnonThebes, Colossi of MemnonThebes, Deir el-Medina, Mummie clothThebes, Deir el-Medina, Stela of the foreman Neb-Nefer, praying to king Amenhotep I and queen Ahmose-NefertariThebes, Deir el-Medina, Stela with Meri-Meri opening the mouth of his parents Ken and NefertariThebes, Deir el-Medina, Stela of Nefer-Renpet burning incense for Ra-HarakhteThebes, Deir el-Medina, Stela with Ramesses II executing POWsThebes, Deir el-Medina, TownThebes, Deir el-Medina, TownThebes, Deir el-Medina, TownThebes, Deir el-Medina, TombThebes, Deir el-Medina, TownThebes, Deir el-Medina, TownTurin Papyrus MapTurin Papyrus MapThebes, Medinet Habu, Mortuary temple of Ramesses III, Relief of a horseThebes, Medinet Habu, Mortuary temple of Ramesses III,  Relief of Ramesses III killing Peleset POWsThebes, Medinet Habu, Second courtThebes, Medinet Habu, Mortuary temple of Ramesses III, ReliefThebes, Medinet Habu, Mortuary temple of Ramesses III, HieroglyphsThebes, Medinet Habu, Mortuary temple of Ramesses III,  Relief of Ramesses III killing Peleset POWsThebes, Medinet Habu, Second courtThebes, Medinet Habu, Mortuary temple of Ramesses III, Columns with relief of Ramesses III killing POWsThebes, Medinet Habu, Mortuary temple of Ramesses III, ReliefThebes, Medinet Habu, Mortuary temple of Ramesses III,  Relief of Ramesses III killing Peleset POWsThebes, Medinet Habu, View along the central axis

Location:

  • Egypt, Al Qurnah
  • geo:25.724924,32.606632
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • -1206 / unknown

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=23356

Annotations

The Stele of Merneptah currently in Cairo 34025 was discovered by Flinders Petrie in the ruins of the morturay temple of  Mer-ne-Ptah, (ca 1213-1203 BC) the King of the XIX Dynast, the thirteenth son of Ramesses II,  in Thebes. Tht earliest reference to the Israelites.

See:

  1. W.M.Flinders Petrie, Six Temples at Thebes, London 1897, pp.11 ff - http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/petrie1897   
  2. James B. Pritchard eds, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 2nd ed.1955, pp.576-578
  3. Wilhelm Spiegelberg: Der Siegeshymnus des Merneptah auf der Flinders Petrie-Stele. In: Adolf Erman, Georg Steindorff (Hrsg.): Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Alterthumskunde. Vierunddreissigster Band. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1896, pp. 1–25 - http://www.archive.org/stream/zeitschriftfr34brug
  4. Wilhelm Gesenius, Frants Buhl: Hebräisches und Aramäisches Handwörterbuch über das Alte Testament. 16. Auflage, Vogel, Leipzig 1915.
  5. Otto Kaiser: Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments. Bd. 1 - Alte Folge, Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 1985
  6. Helmut Engel: Die Siegesstele des Merenptah. Kritischer Überblick über die verschiedenen Versuche historischer Auswertung des Schlussabschnitts. (= Biblica. Bd. 60). Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, Rom 1979, pp. 373-399.

Relevant museums

Aswan, International Museum of Nubia

Museum of the Nubian presence in southern Egypt

National Archaeological Museum, Athens

National Archaeological Museum, Athens

Rome, Vatican Museums

Rome, Vatican Museums

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Antikensammlung und Münzkabinett

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Antikensammlung und Münzkabinett

Barcelona, Museu Egipci

Egyptological museum

Berlin, Neues Museum

Berlin, Neues Museum

Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe

Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre

Brussels, Koninklijke musea voor kunst en geschiedenis

Brussels, Koninklijke musea voor kunst en geschiedenis

Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Copenhagen, National Museum of Denmark

Copenhagen, National Museum of Denmark

Allard Pierson Museum

Het Allard Pierson Museum is het archeologisch museum van de Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden

The national archaeological museum of the Netherlands, located in Leiden

Stockholm, Medelhavsmuseet

Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art


Nearby

Merenptah's Mortuary Temple

Merenptah's Mortuary temple

Temple of Tausert [Thebes]

Memorial Temple of Tausert.

Temple of Khonsuirdis [Thebes]

Mortuary temple of Khonsuirdis .


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