Merneptah (reigned July or August 1213 BC – 2 May 1203 BC) was the fourth pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. He ruled Egypt for almost ten years, from late July or early August 1213 BC until his death on 2 May 1203 BC, according to contemporary historical records. He was the first royal-born pharaoh since Tutankhamun of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
Pharaoh Merneptah ordered the following during his reign:
•Additions to the Osirion at Abydos,
•Temple to the God Seth at Nubt, modern day Naqada
•Inscriptions in the Temple of Montu
•Additions to the Temple in Dendera, presumably to the Temple of Hathor
•Created the Merneptah Stele in Nubia, southern Kemet
•Rock Shrines to the west of Gebel el Silsila which depict him making offerings to the deities and his wife, Queen Isetnofret II, making offering to other deities
•3 Osiride Statues depicting the Pharaoh at Abydos,
•Some monuments in his father’s Capital city at Pi-Ramses
•Victory Stela’s and Columns at Hermopolis, Heliopolis, and Kom el-Ahmar
•Blocks at Elephantine Island, modern day Aswan
•The restoration of Pharaoh Amenhotep III’s hawk at Abydos which had been damaged,
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