The
Ancient Egyptian noble, Ramose was
Vizier
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under both
Amenhotep III and
Akhenaten
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. 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. Here appears also the vizier
Amenhotep-Huy
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. Both viziers are also shown side by side in the temple of
Soleb. In the
New Kingdom
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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
Memphis Heby, in office at the beginning of Amenhotep's III reign. The brother of Ramose was the
high steward of Memphis
Amenhotep (Huy).
Tomb
His tomb TT55
Ramose (TT 55)
/ref> is located in the Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
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– part of the Theban Necropolis
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Mortuary temples
* Deir el-Bah ...
, on the west bank of the Nile
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, opposite to Luxor
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, 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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