Ramesside Inscriptions: Translations Ramesses IV to XI and Contemporaries

Based on the hieroglyphic texts of the Ramesside Age of Ancient Egypt (c.1300–1100 BC), the books in this series present a modern English translation of the vast majority of historical sources for this important epoch of Egyptian history. This volume covers a period of economic and political decline and the rise of power in priesthood in Egypt. It includes the vast majority of inscriptions from the reign of Ramesses IV to Ramesses XI, the tenth and final king of the Twentieth Dynasty (c.1155–1078 BC). Many of the texts included have been translated into English for the first time in this volume.

K. A. Kitchen is Emeritus Professor of Egyptology in the University of Liverpool, where he taught for 39 years. During that time, he worked extensively in Egypt, recording the texts for the hieroglyphic edition of Ramesside Inscriptions, I–VIII (Blackwell, 1969–1990), which is the basis for the Translations and Notes and Comments volumes now being issued. He has also produced a major book on Egyptian chronology for later Egypt (1100–650 BC), a classic popular ′Life and Times′ of Ramesses II, and a comprehensive Catalogue of the notable Egyptian collection in Rio de Janeiro; other books on archaeology and the Bible; and the first two–volumes of a series on Ancient (pre–Islamic) Arabia.