This volume presents a vast number of monuments and documents from
almost all levels of Egyptian society during the long reign of
Ramesses II. They range across social categories from grand
viziers, viceroys of Nubia, chiefs of treasury and granaries, high
priests and leading clerics of Egypt's principal gods, army
generals and elite corps, through the high, middle and lower ranks
of Egyptian society to the workmen who cut the royal tombs.
While many monuments are formal, even outwardly banal, they
contain a mass of data on family geneaologies enabling us to trace
the careers of many people. Some of these documents give unrivalled
glimpses into the social and official life of early Ramesside
Egypt; the Deir el-Medina material sheds much light on the
organisation from construction of the royal tombs in the Valleys of
the Kings and Queens. In all sections, a great many of these
monuments and documents appear in English for the first time (for
some, the first appearance in any modern language).
This volume, like its predecessors, gives a wide public full
access to a vast range of inscriptions previously only intelligible
to a few specialists.
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