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king khafre

Posted by Tour2egypt Saturday, September 7, 2013 0 comments

king khafre Fourth Dynasty / old stateThe name of the pharaoh: Kha F Ra / Khafre / Khvrn named means: "Transfiguration such as Ra"Rule of 25 - 29 years oldKing Khafre is the fourth pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty kings who ruled Egypt in the Old Kingdom, a son of King Khufu. And was married to Princess berths Ankh.Mention of was Maniton sentenced twenty-six yearsArcheologists found in the valley temple on its hierarchical collection of schist stone statues, including a statue is one of the most beautiful produced Egyptian sculpture, it is located in the Egyptian Museum, and is also credited with carving rock (sphinx)
Find coffin of King Khafre in Spanish watersNews 05/23/2008 Year 56 number 17502 for news titled [Find coffin of King Khafre in Spanish waters Alaa Abdul-Hadi wrote:Farouk Hosni approved and the Minister of Culture on the formation of a working group of archaeologists and divers in Egypt and Spain headed by Dr.. Zahi Hawass Secretary of the Supreme Council of Antiquities to implementation of the first joint venture with the Spanish government for exploration and the search for the coffin of King Khafre, made of basalt, which sank off the Spanish coast, specifically in front of the city 'Cartagena' historic early nineteenth century while being transported from Egypt to England to do some studies and scientific research . Said Dr.. Zahi Hawass that conducted a comprehensive study outlining the shipwreck site 'Beatrice', which was carrying the coffin in 1838 .. He pointed out that he agreed with 'Bob pillared' discoverer of the ship 'Titanic' as one of the discoverers of the bone to be within the mission, which will research and exploration. Explained the Egyptian ambassador to Spain Yasser Murad said the project will begin later this year.*******************************Statue of King KhafreAl Jazeera Net BC 05/10/2005 story titled [Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt denies crash statue of KhafreDenied the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt health news published in newspapers Cairo yesterday for breaking a small statue of King Khafre existing Egyptian Museum, stressing that the statue in proper condition which does not belong to King Khafre, and there is no any inscriptions refer to it.The Secretary General of the Council Zahi Hawass was recorded third cumulative effects in the store museum, which exceed its collection of 65 thousand pieces from Pharaonic times successive explained Hawass was processing 33 storage effects in the Egyptian capital and other cities rich in monuments "to preserve it and protect it in accordance with international standards for such kind of stores. "

الملك خفرع

عصر الأسرة الرابعة / الدولة القديمة
أسم الفرعون : خع أف رع / خفرع / خفرن اسمه يعني : "التجلي مثل رع"
حكم من 25- 29 سنة
والملك خفرع هو رابع ملوك فراعنة الأسرة الرابعة الذين حكموا مصر فى عصر الدولة القديمة ، وهو ابن الملك خوفو . وكان متزوجاً من الأميرة مراس عنخ.
يذكر المؤرخ مانيتون أنه حكم ست وعشرين سنة
عثر الأثريون في معبد الوادي الخاص بمجموعته الهرمية على تماثيل من حجر الشست، بينهم تمثال يعتبر من أجمل ما أنتجه فن النحت المصري، وهو موجود بالمتحف المصري، وينسب له أيضا نحت صخرة تمثال (أبي الهول)
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البحث عن تابوت الملك خفرع في المياه الإسبانية
الأخبار 23/5/2008م السنة 56 العدد 17502 عن خبر بعنوان [ البحث عن تابوت الملك خفرع في المياه الإسبانية ] كتب علاء عبدالهادي:
وافق فاروق حسني وزير الثقافة علي تشكيل فريق عمل من خبراء الآثار والغواصين بمصر واسبانيا برئاسة د. زاهي حواس أمين المجلس الأعلي للآثار لتنفيذ أول مشروع مشترك مع الحكومة الاسبانية للتنقيب والبحث عن التابوت الخاص بالملك خفرع المصنوع من البازلت والذي غرق قبالة السواحل الاسبانية وبالتحديد أمام مدينة 'قرطاجنة' التاريخية اوائل القرن التاسع عشر أثناء نقله من مصر إلي انجلترا لإجراء بعض الدراسات والابحاث العلمية. وصرح د. زاهي حواس بأنه اجري دراسة شاملة حدد فيها موقع غرق السفينة 'بياتريس' التي كانت تقل التابوت عام 1838م.. مشيرا إلي انه اتفق مع 'بوب بيلرد' مكتشف الباخرة 'تايتانيك' بوصفه احد المكتشفين العظام ليكون ضمن البعثة التي ستقوم بالبحث والتنقيب. أوضح السفير المصري لدي اسبانيا ياسر مراد ان المشروع سيبدأ نهاية العام الحالي.
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تمثال الملك خفرع
الجزيرة نت ق5/10/2005 م عن خبر بعنوان [ المجلس الأعلى للآثار بمصر ينفي تحطم تمثال خفرع ]
نفى المجلس الأعلى للآثار في مصر صحة الخبر المنشور في صحف القاهرة أمس عن كسر تمثال صغير للملك خفرع موجود بالمتحف المصري، مؤكدا أن التمثال في حالة سليمة وهو لا يخص الملك خفرع ولا يوجد عليه أية نقوش تشير إلى ذلك.
وأضاف الأمين العام للمجلس زاهي حواس أنه تم تسجيل ثلث الآثار المتراكمة في مخزن المتحف الذي تتجاوز مقتنياته الـ65 ألف قطعة أثرية من العصور الفرعونية المتعاقبة وأوضح حواس أنه تم تجهيز 33 مخزنا للآثار في العاصمة المصرية ومدن أخرى غنية بالآثار "للحفاظ عليها وحمايتها وفق المواصفات العالمية لمثل هذا النوع من المخازن".

Ramses IV

Posted by Tour2egypt Wednesday, June 12, 2013 0 comments

Ramses IV
Pharaoh of Egypt
Reign: 1155-1149 BC, 20th Dynasty

Predecessor: Ramesses III

Successor: Ramesses V

royal titulary

consort :     Duatentopet

Children:                    
RamessesV 

  
Mother:   Tyti


Died:  1149 BC


Burial: KV2


Monuments: 

Temple of Khonsu at Karnak

Heqamaatre Ramesses IV (also written Ramses or Rameses) was the third pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty of the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt. His name prior to assuming the crown was Amonhirkhopshef. He was the fifth son of Ramesses III and was appointed to the position of crown prince by the twenty-second year of his father's reign when all four of his elder brothers predeceased him.  His promotion to crown prince:

'is suggested by his appearance (suitably entitled) in a scene of the festival of Min at the Ramesses III temple at Karnak, which may have been completed by Year 22 [of his father's reign]. (the date is mentioned in the poem inscribed there)'

As his father's chosen successor the Prince employed three distinctive titles: "Hereditary Prince", "Royal scribe" and "Generalissimo"; the latter two of his titles are mentioned in a text at Amenhotep III's temple at Soleb  and all three royal titles appear on a lintel now in Florence, Italy. As heir-apparent he took on increasing responsibilities; for instance, in Year 27 of his father's reign, he is depicted appointing a certain Amenemopet to the important position of Third Prophet of Amun in the latter's TT 148 tomb.  Amenemope's Theban tomb also accords prince Ramesses all three of his aforementioned sets of royal titles. Due to the three decade long rule of Ramesses III, Ramesses IV is believed to have been a man in his forties when he took the throne. His rule has been dated to either 1151 to 1145 BC or 1155 to 1149 BC.


Family:

It is now believed that Ramesses IV's mother was most likely Queen Tyti from recently discovered notes published in the 2010 issue of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. They reveal that Tyti—who was both a king's daughter, a king's wife and a king's mother in her own right—was identified in Papyrus BM EA 10052 (i.e. the tomb-robbery papyri) to be a queen of Ramesses III, Ramesses IV's father. The 2010 JEA article authors--including Aidan Dodson--write that since Ramesses VI's mother is known to be a certain lady named Iset Ta-Hemdjert or Isis:

"only Ramesses IV and Ramesses VIII remain as candidates [for the mother of Ramesses IV]. Given that Ramesses VIII only reigned briefly some 25 years after his father’s death, it is hardly likely that the decoration of QV52, with the mwt-nsw (i.e. king's mother) title intimately mixed with Tyti’s other titles, could have been delayed this late to refer to him. This leaves Ramesses IV as the only credible primary 'subject' of the mwt-nsw title in the tomb. As for which--if any--of the other sons of Ramesses III were borne to Tyti, no unequivocal data is available, other than the fact that Amenhirkhopeshef B, buried in QV55,  was ms n Hmt-nTr mwt-nTr Hmt-nsw-wrt, paralleling Tyti's titles so closely that he may with some confidence be proposed as her son."

Thus the identity of Ramesses IV's mother has been resolved in favour of Queen Tyti who was once erroneously thought to be the mother of another king in the mid-1980s: Ramesses XI. Ramesses IV was succeeded to the throne by his son Ramesses V.




Projects:
                                                                                          Ramses IV offering two Nu vases,
                                                                                                   British Museum.



 
At the start of his reign, the pharaoh initiated a substantial building campaign program on the scale of Ramesses II by doubling the size of the work gangs at Deir el-Medina to a total of 120 men and dispatching numerous expeditions to the stone quarries of Wadi Hammamat and the turquoise mines of the Sinai. The Great Rock stela of Ramesses IV at Wadi Hammamat records that the largest expedition—dated to his Year 3, third month of Shemu day 27—consisted of 8,368 men alone including 5,000 soldiers, 2,000 personnel of the Amun temples, 800 Apiru and 130 stonemasons and quarrymen under the personal command of the High Priest of Amun, Ramessesnakht. The scribes who composed the text conscientiously noted that this figure excluded 900 men "who are dead and omitted from this list." Consequently, once this omitted figure is added to the tally of 8,368 men who survived the Year 3 quarry expedition, a total of 900 men out of an original expedition of 9,268 men perished during this massive endeavour for a mortality rate of almost 10%. This gives an indication of the harshness of life in Egypt's stone quarries. Some of the stones which were dragged 60 miles to the Nile from Wadi Hammamat weighed 40 tons or more. Other Egyptian quarries including Aswan were located much closer to the Nile which enabled them to use barges to transport stones long distances.
Part of the king's program included the extensive enlargement of his father's Temple of Khonsu at Karnak and the construction of a large mortuary temple near the Temple of Hatshepsut. Ramesses IV also sent several expeditions to the turquoise mines the Sinai; a total of four expeditions are known prior to his fourth year. The Serabit el-Khadim stela of the Royal Butler Sobekhotep states: "Year 3, third month of Shomu. His Majesty sent his favoured and beloved one, the confident of his lord, the Overseer of the Treasury of Silver and Gold, Chief of the Secrets of the august Palace, Sobekhotep, justified, to bring for him all that his heart desired of turquoise (on) his fourth expedition." This expedition dates to either Ramesses III or IV's reign since Sobekhotep is attested in office until at least the reign of Ramesses V. Ramesses IV's final venture to the turquoise mines of the Sinai is documented by the stela of a senior army scribe named Panufer. Panufer states that this expedition's mission was both to procure turquoise and to establish a cult chapel of king Ramesses IV at the Hathor temple of Serabit el-Khadim. The stela reads:
Year 5, second month of Shomu [ie: summer]. The sending by His Majesty <to> build the Mansion of Millions of Years of Ramesses IV in the temple of Hathor, Lady of Turquoise, by Panefer, the Scribe of the Commands of the Army, son of Pairy, justified.
While little is known regarding the route that the mining missions took from Egypt to Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai, AJ Peden who wrote a biography of Ramesses IV's reign
in 1994 states that there were "two obvious routes" to reach this site:

"The first was a straightforward march from a Delta base, such as Memphis, east south-east and then south into Sinai. Surviving a march in this inhospitable land would have presented formidable logistical obstacles, perhaps forcing an alternative route to be adopted. This would involve a departure from the Delta to a site near the modern port of Suez. From here they could have proceeded by boat to the ports of Abu Zenima or El-Markha on the west coast of the Sinai peninsula and from there it is a short journey inland of only a day or two to the actual site of Serabit el-Khadim.




Attestations:


Ramesses IV is attested by his aforementioned building activity at Wadi Hammamat and Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai as well as several papyri and even one obelisk. The creation of a royal cult in the Temple of Hathor is known under his reign at Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai while Papyrus Mallet (or P. Louvre 1050) dates to Years 3 and 4 of his reign. Papyrus Mallet is a six column text dealing partly with agricultural affairs; its first column lists the prices for various commodities between Year 31 of Ramesses III until Year 3 of Ramesses IV. The final four columns contain a memorandum of 2 letters composed by the Superintendent of Cattle of the Estate of Amen-Re, Bakenkhons, to several mid-level administrators and their subordinates. Meanwhile, surviving monuments of Ramesses IV in the Delta consists of an obelisk recovered in Cairo and a pair of his cartouches found on a pylon gateway both originally from Heliopolis.

                                Relief of Ramesses IV at the Temple of  Khonsu in Karnak
 
The most important document to survive from this pharaoh's rule is Papyrus Harris I, which honours the life of his father, Ramesses III, by listing the latter's many accomplishments and gifts to the temples of Egypt, and the Turin papyrus, the earliest known geologic map. Ramesses IV was perhaps the last New Kingdom king to engage in large-scale monumental building after his father as "there was a marked decline in temple building even during the longer reigns of Ramesses IX and VI. The only apparent exception was the attempt of Ramesses V and VI to continue the vast and uncompleted mortuary temple of Ramesses IV at the Assasif."


Death:

Despite Ramesses IV's many endeavours for the gods and his prayer to Osiris—preserved on a Year 4 stela at Abydos—that "thou shalt give me the great age with a long reign [as my predecessor]", the king did not live long enough to accomplish his ambitious goals.
After a short reign of about six and a half years,
ramesses IV died and was buried in tomb KV2 in the Valley of the Kings. His mummy was found in the royal cache of Amenhotep II's tomb KV35 in 1898. His chief wife is Queen Duatentopet or Tentopet or Male who was buried in QV74. His son, Ramesses V, would succeed him to the throne.


                                                Ushabti of Ramses IV, Musée du Louvre.

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