RELIGN M132 Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Great Hypostyle Hall, Horemheb, Ramesses I
15 May 2020
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The role assigned to paramessu once more reveals horemheb"s preoccupation with the military situation in egypt"s northern territories. Paramessu"s family came from avaris, the former capital of the. Hyksos, and the role of its local god seth, who had retained strong connections with the canaanite god. Bae al, appears to have been comparable with that of horus of hutnesu in horemheb"s career. In the light of this it is interesting to observe that horemheb built a temple for seth at avaris. When horemheb died, apparently childless, paramessu succeeded him as rameses i (1295-1294 bc). With him began a new dynasty, the 19th, although there is some evidence to suggest that the ramessid pharaohs considered horemheb as the true founder of the dynasty. In his coronation text horemheb had mentioned that he had equipped the newly reopened temples with priests "from the pick of the army", providing them with fields and cattle.
