RAMESSES VI
(reigned c. 1143–1136 BC)
Throne nameNebmaatre meryamun. Personal nameAmenherkhepeshef. Epithet netjer heka iunu. Successor of Ramesses V and possible son of Ramesses III. He installed his daughter, Princess Isis, as God’s wife of Amun, apparently the first known virgin princess to hold the post. He was buried in tomb KV9 in the Valley of the Kings, which he had taken over from his predecessor. His body was recovered from the royal cache in the tomb ofAmenhotep II in 1898.
Historical Dictionary Of Ancient Egypt by Morris L. Bierbrier
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see Ramesses V.
Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt by Rosalie and Antony E. David