The
Ancient Egyptian noble, Ramose was
Vizier
A vizier (; ar, وزير, wazīr; fa, وزیر, vazīr), or wazir, is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in the near east. The Abbasid caliphs gave the title ''wazir'' to a minister formerly called '' katib'' (secretary), who was ...
under both
Amenhotep III and
Akhenaten
Akhenaten (pronounced ), also spelled Echnaton, Akhenaton, ( egy, ꜣḫ-n-jtn ''ʾŪḫə-nə-yātəy'', , meaning "Effective for the Aten"), was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh reigning or 1351–1334 BC, the tenth ruler of the Eighteenth D ...
. He was in office in the last decade of Amenhotep's III reign and at the beginning of the reign of the latter king. Ramose appears on jar labels found in the palace of king Amenhotep III at
Malkata
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. Here appears also the vizier
Amenhotep-Huy. Both viziers are also shown side by side in the temple of
Soleb
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cataract of the Nile, on the western side of the Nile. It was discovered and described by
Karl Richard Lepsius in 1844.
Necropolis
Soleb is also t ...
. In the
New Kingdom the office of the vizier was divided in a northern vizier and a southern one. It is not entirely clear whether Ramose was the southern or northern one.
Ramose was born into an influential family. His father was the mayor of
Memphis
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* Memp ...
Heby, in office at the beginning of Amenhotep's III reign. The brother of Ramose was the
high steward of Memphis
Amenhotep (Huy)
Amenhotep (Huy) was the '' high steward of Memphis'' under Amenhotep III in the Egyptian 18th Dynasty. With this title he was one of the highest officials at the royal court.
Family
Amenhotep, with the nickname Huy, was a member of an influent ...
.
Tomb
His tomb TT55
Ramose (TT 55)
/ref> is located in the Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
The necropolis of Sheikh Abd el-Qurna ( ar, شيخ عبدالقرنة) is located on the West Bank at Thebes in Upper Egypt. It is part of the archaeological area of Deir el-Bahari, and named after the domed tomb of the local saint. This is the m ...
– part of the Theban Necropolis
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Mortuary temples
* Deir el-Bahri ...
, on the west bank of the Nile
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, opposite to Luxor
Luxor ( ar, الأقصر, al-ʾuqṣur, lit=the palaces) is a modern city in Upper (southern) Egypt which includes the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of ''Thebes''.
Luxor has frequently been characterized as the "world's greatest open-a ...
, and is notable for the high quality decorations in both the traditional
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and Amarna style
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s.
References
14th-century BC Egyptian people
Viziers of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
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