Merneptah

[mer-nep-tah, mer-nep-tah]

noun

1. king of ancient Egypt c1225–c1215 b.c. (son of Ramses II).

Example Sentences

These dates suggest, for example, that the correlation of a certain destructive episode with the actions of the pharaoh Merneptah is plausible, while the proposed link between another such episode and the campaign of Hazael is not.

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And when father first lays eyes on his daughter's Millennium clock, the best he can do is paraphrase the ancient Egyptian text known as the Merneptah Stele in reference to his own folly.

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The Merneptah Stele was found right across the Nile from Karnak, the Egyptian temple complex that Adrian Veidt named his Antarctic retreat after.

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There’s more: Merneptah was the son of Ramesses II, whom the Greeks called Ozymandias.

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This is an excerpt from the inscription on the Merneptah Stele, dating from 1208 B.C., the only surviving textual reference to Israel from ancient Egypt.

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