The Ramesses III prisoner tiles are a collection of Egyptian faience depicting prisoners of war, found in Ramesses III's palaces at Medinet Habu (adjacent to the Mortuary Temple at Medinet Habu) and Tell el-Yahudiyeh.[3] Large numbers of faience tiles have been found in these areas by sebakh-diggers since 1903;[4] the best known are those depicting foreign people or prisoners.[5] Many were found in excavated rubbish heaps.[4]
They are considered of significant historical and ethnographical interest, given the representation of neighbouring populations during the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt (1189 BC–1077 BC).[6]
Most are in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, as well as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.[4]
- ^ Daressy 1911.
- ^ LER 1908.
- ^ Hölscher 1941, pp. 42–44.
- ^ a b c Hölscher 1941, p. 42.
- ^ Hölscher 1941, p. 40.
- ^ Daressy 1911, p. 51a: In the original French: "Ce sont ces représentations de prisonniers qui olfrent le plus grand intérêt au point de vue historique et ethnographique, en nous montrant les types des populations étrangères voisines de l'Egypte au xii^ sièle avant notre ère."