The

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 noble, Ramose was

Vizier A vizier (; ; ) is a high-ranking political advisor or Minister (government), minister in the Near East. The Abbasids, Abbasid caliphs gave the title ''wazir'' to a minister formerly called ''katib'' (secretary), who was at first merely a help ...

under both

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and

Akhenaten Akhenaten (pronounced ), also spelled Akhenaton or Echnaton ( ''ʾŪḫə-nə-yātəy'', , meaning 'Effective for the Aten'), was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh reigning or 1351–1334 BC, the tenth ruler of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, Eig ...

. 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

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. Here appears also the vizier

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. Both viziers are also shown side by side in the temple of

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. In the

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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

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Heby, in office at the beginning of Amenhotep's III reign. The brother of Ramose was the high steward of Memphis

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Tomb

His tomb TT55Ramose (TT 55)
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Sheikh Abd el-Qurna The necropolis of Sheikh Abd el-Qurna () is located on the West Bank at Thebes, Egypt, 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 most frequently v ...

– part of the

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, on the west bank of the

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, opposite to

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, and is notable for the high quality decorations in both the

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and

Amarna style Amarna art, or the Amarna style, is a style adopted in the Amarna Period during and just after the reign of Akhenaten (r. 1351–1334 BC) in the late Eighteenth Dynasty, during the New Kingdom. Whereas ancient Egyptian art was famously slow t ...

Gallery

File:By ovedc - Tomb of Ramose - 05.jpg, Papyrus shaped stone columns in the tomb of Ramose File:Ramose1.JPG, Entrance to the tomb of Ramose File:TT55 Ramose Burial Chamber.jpeg, View of Ramose's Tomb burial chamber File:By ovedc - Tomb of Ramose - 09.jpg, Painted decorations from Ramose's tomb File:Reliefs of a Procession from the Tomb of Ramose TT55.jpg, Reliefs of a procession from Ramose's tomb File:Ramose-12c.jpg, Tomb of Ramose (TT55), Amenhotep III and Akhenaten's reign at Sheikh Abd el-Gurna

References

14th-century BC Egyptian people Viziers of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt {{AncientEgypt-bio-stub