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The Ramesseo |
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| To understand Ramses’s celebrative restlessness it’s necessary to visit
the Ramesseo ruins. Although only a part is still up today, the complex on the
left bank of the Nile, in the Tebana region, is certainly the pharaoh’s most
impressive work. It was his funeral temple but it wasn’t destined to receive his
body after death, but to celebrate the ceremonies of his cult once he
died.Closed in a massive surrounding wall, this kind of religious town included,
besides the main temple, a series of buildings, some of which were destined as
residences. There were also some shops, warehouses and even schools of scribes
where the archaeologist have found various papyruses. As he had done before, to
build his funeral temple Ramses ordered to use parts of ancient monuments, but
this was the same destiny that even the Ramesseo had the pharaoh’s greatness and
his great reign for the following centuries, was instead partly dismantled, for
the same reason, by other sovereign.
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