Ramesside

comparative more Ramesside · superlative most Ramesside · alternative Ramessid

1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Ramesside period of ancient Egyptian history, named such after its eleven pharaohs named Ramesses.

   Ramesside Egypt

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   Ramesside texts

   The scribal literature I mentioned before is a very Ramesside phenomenon and it seems that a strong association between education and social advancement is then made.

   2016, Chloé Ragazzoli, “‘The Pen Promoted My Station’: Scholarship and Distinction in New Kingdom Biographies”, in Kim Ryholt, Gojko Barjamovic, editors, Problems of Canonicity and Identity Formation in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications; 43), Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, →ISBN, page 166

   Along the north wall, the owner and his wife are shown adoring the Gods and wearing very Ramesside clothing, his kilt has a high back and her dress is elaborately pleated. […] The deceased is offering a large Maat figure and then there are two white-wigged figures of a man and woman, his parents Siwazyt, a priest (Head of the bark of Amen), and Tawosret, his mother, both wearing very Ramesside garments.

   2016, Jane Akshar, “TT290 Irynefer”, in Hidden Luxor, 2nd edition, →ISBN, “Deir El Medina” section, pages 93–94

plural Ramessides · alternative Ramessid

1. Any of these eleven pharaohs.