RELIGN M132 Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Ramesses I, Ptah, Tunip

• School: UCLA
• Department: Religion, Study of
• Course: RELIGN M132
• Professor: Kathlyn Cooney

Document Summary

In the fifth year of his reign, ramses ii led a large army to kadeshon-orontes in an attempt to dislodge the hittites from northern syria. Subsequently the campaign was told at length in two separate accounts which scholars have called the bulletin (or, the rp. umf) and the poem. Taken together. the two accounts, supplemented by the pictorial record, offer a vivid and detailed campaign report which is clear in its main features, and which may be summarized as follows. The army that ramses i i led into syria consisted of four divisions, each composed of infantry and chariots. and named after the four great gods: amun, re (called pre with definite article), ptah, and seth (= sutekh). Pharaoh continued forward until he reached high ground to the northwest of kadesh , where he went into camp to await the arrival of the main body of his army.