Egyptian Portrait
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Egyptian Portrait
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Weston Westmoreland
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
Egyptian royal portrait, possibly belonging to Pharaoh Ramesses VI, 12th century BC.
Splendid portrait of a Pharao, painted on an ostracon (a shard of limestone in this case), believed to belong to Ramesses VI, who reigned between 1143 and 1136 BC (20th Dynasty). Nebmaatre-Meryamun, also known under his princely name of Amenherkhepshef was the fifth pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt.
Ramesses VI buried his predecessor in an unknown tomb and usurped KV9, a tomb in the Valley of the Kings planned by and for Ramesses V, and had it enlarged and redecorated for himself. The craftsmen's huts near the entrance of KV9 covered up the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb, saving it from a wave of tomb robberies that occurred within 20 years of Ramesses VI's death.
The pharaoh's power waned in Upper Egypt during Ramesses VI's rule. He died in his forties, in his eighth or ninth year of rule. His mummy lay untouched in his tomb for fewer than 20 years before pillagers damaged it. The body was moved to KV35 during the reign of Pinedjem I, and was discovered in 1898.
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