HISTORY 26

Lecture Eighteen:

The Later New Kingdom(c. 1336 - 1069 BC)

OzymandiasPercy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822

AD)

I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things, The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains: round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Rameses II Usermaatra Setepenra

(1279 - 1213 BC)

The Later New KingdomDynasties 19 and 20 (1295 -

1069 BC)19th Dynasty: (1295 -

1186)

Rameses ISety IRameses IIMerenptahAmenmessuSety IISaptahQueen Tausret

20th Dynasty: (1186 - 1069)

SethnachtRameses IIIRameses IVRameses VRameses VIRameses VIIRameses VIIIRameses IXRameses XRameses XI

The Ten Commandments (1956)

Cecil B. DeMille

Watchmen (1986/1987)

The New KingdomDynasty 18 (1550 - 1295 BC)

AhmoseAmenhotep IThutmose IThutmose IIQueen HatshepsutThutmose IIIAmenhotep IIThutmose IV

Amenhotep IIIAmenhotep IV/

AkhenatenNeferneferuatenTutankhamunAyHoremheb

Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten and Nefertiti (1352 - 1336

BC)

Tutankhamun Nebkheperura (1336 - 1327 BC)

Abandons Akhetaten (Amarna) for Memphis

From Tutankhaten (‘Living image of the Aten’)

To Tutankhamun (‘Living image of Amun’)

Regent: General Horemheb

Successor: Ay

Horemheb Djeserkheperura (1323 - 1295 BC)

Defaced the monuments of Ay

A military officer of non-royal blood

Chosen by Horus of Hutnesu, his personal god, and appointed by Amun, the state god

Rameses I Menpehtyra (1295 - 1294 BC)

Originally Paramessu

Founder of the 19th Dynasty

From Avaris, the former Hyksos capital

Patron deity: Seth

Rameses II Usermaatra Setepenra

(1279 - 1213 BC)

The Hittites

City-state of Amurru

The Libyans

The Battle of Kadesh

Rameses II vs. Muwatalli, King of the Hittites

The Ramesseum (Dendara)

Rock Temple at Abu Simbel (Nubia)

Rock Temple at Abu Simbel (Nubia)

Piramesse, ‘House of Rameses’

‘Rameses-the-God’