Amenmesse in Kent, Liverpool, and Thebes

Abstract

Publication of a fragment of rock-stela at Chiddingstone Castle, Kent (Inv. 42), which bears the names of Sethos II, written over the erased cartouches of Amenmesse. It may have come from the ‘Oratory of Ptah’ in the Deir el-Medina/Biban el-Harim area, as may a fragment of another relief formerly in Liverpool Museum (M13827). Consideration is also given to a former Liverpool statue base (M13510) that bore the superimposed names of Amenmesse and another king.