The shimmering sword found in Egypt likely belonged to a high-ranking military official under the reign of Ramesses II who some scholars claimed is the pharaoh mentioned in the Bible© Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities
Posted on 09/20/2024 10:17:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The bronze blade, thought to be around 3,000 years old, has the markings of Ramesses II, hailed as the most powerful king of ancient Egypt...
The sword was uncovered among the ruins of an ancient military fort in Housh Eissa, a city just south of Alexandria, which featured barracks for soldiers and storage rooms for food, weapons and other goods...
The ancient sword likely did not belong to the famous king, but likely to one of his soldiers stationed at the fort, experts said.
Elizabeth Frood, an Oxford University Egyptologist who was not involved in the dig, told The Washington Post: 'An object to bear the cartouches of Rameses II would suggest to me that it belonged to someone of relatively high rank.
'To be able to display such an object, even though it would have been presumably in a scabbard, was a marker of status and prestige.'
The sword was uncovered at a site called Tell Al-Abqain, which experts said was 'a crucial military outpost.'
...Archaeologists with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities also discovered a treasure trove of ancient wonders, including jewelry, scarabs and protective amulets.
'In addition to the barracks, numerous artifacts and personal items belonging to soldiers were unearthed,' the tourism ministry added...
A pair of limestone blocks were also uncovered, one inscribed with the titles of King Ramses II and the other belonging to an official named 'Bay.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The shimmering sword found in Egypt likely belonged to a high-ranking military official under the reign of Ramesses II who some scholars claimed is the pharaoh mentioned in the Bible© Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities
[snip] At some period of her career Twosre claimed the title of Pharaoh, not just royal wife or queen. All points to the time immediately following the assassination of her husband, Ramses Siptah. At the death of her husband she was pregnant and Bey, the Assyrian plenipotentiary, set to pronounce her issue as the occupant of the throne upon birth, would not leave the pharaoh’s seat vacant in the interim. This Bey, who was not of Egyptian origin, but possibly "a Syrian by birth" let a tomb be excavated for himself in the Valley of the Kings; even though this tomb is not spectacular, still it was most inappropriate for anybody not of the royal house to be entombed in the Valley of the Kings. "It is a strange and unprecedented thing that three contemporaries should have possessed tombs in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings," the other two being Sethos and his wife Twosre. [/snip]Queen Tworse | Immanuel Velikovsky | The Assyrian Conquest
Thanks for the link!
I have two bronze short swords from the same era. They look just like that except for a green patina.
Very disappointing to learn that Ramses did not look like Yul Brynner. 😆
the other belonging to an official named 'Bay.'
It's older than I thought...........
California insists on taxing this as a windfall, according to Newscum.
wow!
I will bring back his blood on my sword, to mix with your own...
IRL, Rameses II was probably not the Pharaoh of the Exodus. He lived about 170 years too late. Amenhotep II is a better candidate.
That line is one of the kinky moments found in a major motion picture of the 50s.
It’s pretty. :^) It’s great that it can be dated by a cartouche, and hadn’t been melted down long ago for some other item.
Nice, from what part of the world?
Great!
1 Samuel 17
50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.
51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.
😅
Did it have Nancy Pelosi’s finger prints on it?
I also have maybe 6 bronze short daggers about 12 inches long and maybe 12 spear tips, both tang mounted and socket mounted. All, but one are bronze, the other is an iron Roman socket mount spear tip with a Bodkin point that is newer, maybe 100 AD or possibly newer.
My house is like a museum. I have Greek and Roman pottery (500 BC to 200 AD) as well as native American pottery from fairly new to Anasazi times. And Mediterian/middle east bronze and terracotta oil lamps going back, I don't know, maybe 1000 BC. Han to Ming dynasty Chinese ceramics and much more. I am a collector. I always enjoy your posts.
:^) Brynner claimed to be a Mongolian Jew. :^D
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