Gardiner Alan H. The Kadesh Inscriptions of Ramesses II

Griffith Institute, 1975. — 67 p.When Ch. Kuentz published his admirable edition of the Kadesh texts in 1928 it was the hope of all Egyptologists that he would soon follow it up with a definitive translation and commentary. Thirty years having elapsed without these being forthcoming it is but natural that other scholars should have attempted to supply the need, the latest being R. O. Faulkner in the Festschrift for H. Junker, where the two main texts are rendered in extenso as an appendix to a discussion of the strategy of the famous battle. Unfortunately Faulkner’s in many ways excellent essay has appeared in a place where it will be inaccessible to any but professed Egyptologists, and having long interested myself in these all-important inscriptions I have thought it would be useful to furnish other readers with versions of my own, accompanying them with philological notes, though these latter will appeal only to my specialist colleagues.