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Ramses V governed in Egypt for a short time. His reign in fact didn’t last
more then three years. We know he was the last attested pharaoh in Timna, where
a faience fragment has been found with the remainders of his name. Ramses’s
glory is connected to the finding of some important papyruses among which the
one called Wilbour, that is a precious document for the Knowledge on the
Egyptian agricultural system of that epoch and the Naunakhte one, that
represents a lady’s testament, an important proof of the juridical freedom the
Egyptian women had. The most famous papyrus concerning Ramses’s V reign is certainly the one that reports about the scandal in Elefantina in which a priest was involved of Khnum’s temple, accused of abusing of his authority, thefts, adultery and various sacrileges. The king probably died for a disease, maybe smallpox, and the tomb destined to him was completed by Ramses VI for his servants. An ostrakon found in the valley of the king lets us think that Ramses’s V tomb hasn’t yet been discovered, or at least hasn’t yet been identified. The sovereign died with no heirs and so the throne passed to Ramses’s III son, who was named Ramses VI and who was the last pharaoh whose presence was attested in Sinai. |
