ABSTRACT
In the more ancient Egyptian texts and monuments, the materials on the Nineteenth Dynasty are relatively abundant, and two items in particular bear on the chronology. On a stela from Abydos, Ramses IV of the Twentieth Dynasty offers a prayer that he might reign as long as did Ramses II, namely, sixty-seven years. In reliefs in the mortuary temple of Ramses III at Medinet Habu, in a procession of royal statues, Ramses II and Merneptah are followed only by Seti II before coming to Sethnakhte, the first king of the Twentieth Dynasty, and to his successor, Ramses III himself. This suggests that only Seti II was considered a legitimate king in the last part of the Nineteenth Dynasty. As king of Egypt, the son of Sethnakhte used both a prenomen and a nomen that were patterned after the names of Ramses II.
