Ramose was an

ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt () was a cradle of civilization concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in Northeast Africa. It emerged from prehistoric Egypt around 3150BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology), when Upper and Lower E ...

ian general, mainly known from his tomb excavated at

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. Ramose appears in the inscriptions of his tomb with several titles, including ''Generals of the army'' (''ḥry-pḏt n p3 mš3''), ''General of the Lord of the

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'', ''deputy of the army'' (''idnw n p3 mš3'') and ''priest'' Ramose lived at the end of the

18th Dynasty The Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XVIII, alternatively 18th Dynasty or Dynasty 18) is classified as the first dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt, the era in which ancient Egypt achieved the peak of its power. The Eighteenth Dynasty ...

and started his career most likely under general Haremhab (before the latter became king). The tomb of Ramose consists of the underground burial chambers and the overground chapel. The chapel is

mudbrick Mudbrick or mud-brick, also known as unfired brick, is an air-dried brick, made of a mixture of mud (containing loam, clay, sand and water) mixed with a binding material such as rice husks or straw. Mudbricks are known from 9000 BCE. From ...

-built and has two courtyards. The entrance is on the east side. At the very back there are three chapels. The tomb of Ramose lies directly next to the one of Haremhab, that he built when he was general and not yet king. In the tomb of Haremhab appears also a close servant of Horemhab with the title ''scribe of the army'' and the name Ramose. It seems likely that these two people with the name Ramose are identical. Not much more is known about him. His tomb was found heavily looted, but it seems that he was buried there as there were found

shabti The ushabti (also called shabti or shawabti, with a number of variant spellings) was a funerary figurine used in ancient Egyptian funerary practices. The Egyptological term is derived from , which replaced earlier , perhaps the nisba of "' ...

s with his name. On the shabtis he bears the title ''priest''. Before the tomb of Ramose was found, there were some speculations about the Ramose depicted in the tomb of Haremhab. The successor of Haremhab as king was

Ramesses I Menpehtyre Ramesses I (or Ramses) was the founding pharaoh of ancient Egypt's Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt, 19th Dynasty. The dates for his short reign are not completely known but the timeline of late 1290s BC, 1292–1290 BC is frequently cited ...

and there were some discussions that Ramose later became king Ramesses I. With the discovery of his private tomb, this seems now unlikely.T. G. Martin: ''The Hidden Tombs of Memphis'', London 1991, , 119

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ramose Officials of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt