Definition of Rameses ii

1. Noun. King of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Rameses Ii

Rambabu
Rambha
Rambino
Rambinos
Rambo
Rambo knife
Rambo knifes
Rambouillet
Rambourg's chromic acid-phosphotungstic acid stain
Rambourg's stains
Ramean
Rameans
Rameau
Rameses
Rameses II
Rameses the Great
Ramesh
Ramesses
Ramesses II
Ramesses the Great
Ramist
Ramists
Ramman
Ramon Lully
Ramon y Cajal
Ramona
Ramos gin fizz
Ramphastidae
Ramphomicron

Literary usage of Rameses ii

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury) with by British Museum (1894)
"The monuments in this room belong chiefly to the time of Rameses II.; about BC 1333. ... Upper part of a colossal granite statue of Rameses II. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Take, for instance, the dating of a stela erected under Rameses II on the route to the Nubian gold mines. It runs:— On the fourth day of the first month of ..."

3. Journal by Royal Institution of Great Britain (1891)
"The reign of Rameses II used to be assigned to 1400 BC or about; but according to the ... The name of Rameses II has been found in the ruins of this city, ..."

4. Egyptian Literature: Comprising Egyptian Tales, Hymns, Litanies, Invocations by Epiphanius Wilson (1901)
"... THE GREAT TABLET OF rameses ii AT ABU- SIMBEL TRANSLATED BY EDOUARD NAVILLE IN the great temple of Abu-Simbel, between two pillars of the first hall, ..."

5. Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity by Society of Antiquaries of London (1852)
"Upon an Historical Tablet of rameses ii., 19th Dynasty, relating to the Gold ... M. Prisse describes it as a tablet of Rameses II., taken from the ruin ..."

6. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1880)
"But the long reign of Rameses II, his boastful spirit, his foreign wars, his vast public works, including numerous temples, the canal, ..."

7. The Egyptian Sûdân, Its History and Monuments by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1907)
"Rameses II., i. 57, 8l, 462. 646, 648 ; ii. 10, 74, 325, 33°? 339. 371. , his in sons and 67 daughters, i. 634. I in the Sudan, i. ..."

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