# The Year 8 inscription and Sea Peoples reliefs of Ramesses III

> The Year 8 inscription and Sea Peoples reliefs of Ramesses III

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**ART** 0D4656V62KTW·Artifact · object

# The Year 8 inscription and Sea Peoples reliefs of Ramesses III

PhotographCC BY-SA 4.0Year 8 of Ramesses III, about 1177 BC (or 1188 BC)

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Oltau, 1177. CC BY-SA 4.0

## Copies 6

**Photo** Oltau · commons.wikimedia.org · 2020-01-06 · CC BY-SA 4.01 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:02010_Naval_battle_of_Delta,_peuples_de_la_mer,_Medinet_Habu_Ramses_III._Tempel_Nordostwand.jpg)[Download](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/d/a885426a1ba64e3eda6272eabcb037282d6d7536bc0f549772ed331020c6a239)

**Picture** Oltau · commons.wikimedia.org · CC BY-SA 4.01 step from the original

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**Photo** Line drawing of the relief, reproduced in Dorothea Gray, Seewesen (Archaeologia Homerica I G, 1974) · commons.wikimedia.org · Public domain (per Commons, PD-old-100-expired)2 steps from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medinet_Habu_Ramses_III._Tempel_Nordostwand_Abzeichnung_01.jpg)[Download](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/d/64869967acc2578d4a2448a5dd3f5b723e068f8fa8156fd7701d1f6bdad568b1)

**Scan** Epigraphic Survey, Oriental Institute · archive.org · 1930 · publisher (free PDF from the University of Chicago)Primary source: [Medinet Habu, Volume I: Earlier Historical Records of Ramses III (OIP 8)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D464D6W28AE/medinet-habu-volume-i-earlier-historical-records-of-ramses)1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://archive.org/details/oip8_20220624)

**Picture** Line drawing of the relief et al. · commons.wikimedia.org · Public domain (per Commons, PD-old-100-expired)2 steps from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medinet_Habu_Ramses_III._Tempel_Nordostwand_Abzeichnung_01.jpg)

**Transcription** William F. Edgerton and John A. Wilson · archive.org · 1936 · publisher (free PDF from the University of Chicago)Primary source: [Historical Records of Ramses III: The Texts in Medinet Habu, Volumes I and II, translated with explanatory notes (SAOC 12)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D464CZ23GSB/historical-records-of-ramses-iii-the-texts-in-medinet-habu)2 steps from the original

[Where it's published](https://archive.org/details/saoc-12.-historical-records-of-ramses-iii.-the-texts-in-medinet-habu-volumes-1-a)

## Where it is kept

[Medinet Habu, mortuary temple of Ramesses III, Thebes](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D464G4M00K2/medinet-habu-mortuary-temple-of-ramesses-iii-thebes) · Temple

## Sources 1

- [Historical Records of Ramses III: The Texts in Medinet Habu, Volumes I and II, translated with explanatory notes (SAOC 12)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D464CZ23GSB/historical-records-of-ramses-iii-the-texts-in-medinet-habu)_SRC_

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The Year 8 inscription and Sea Peoples reliefs of Ramesses III [Artifact ART0D4656V62KTW]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0D4656V62KTW
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Kind

Object

Held by

In situ, mortuary temple of Ramesses III, Medinet Habu, Luxor

Dated

Year 8 of Ramesses III, about 1177 BC (or 1188 BC)

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CC BY-SA 4.0

Place

[Medinet Habu, mortuary temple of Ramesses III, Thebes](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D464G4M00K2/medinet-habu-mortuary-temple-of-ramesses-iii-thebes)

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[Late Bronze Age collapse](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bronze-age-collapse)

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