Block from a Relief Depicting a Battle ca. 1427–1400 New Kingdom Builders reused this painted relief block in the foundation of Ramesses IV's mortuary temple, subsequently excavated by the Metropolitan Museum. In the relief, western Asian soldiers are shown being trampled under the horses that pull the royal chariot, signaling the foreigners' defeat in battle by the might of the Egyptian pharaoh. When the piece was excavated, this and another fragment of a battle scene () were dated to the reign of Ramesses II. A recent study of their stylistic and iconographic features, however,

Block from a Relief Depicting a Battle ca. 1427–1400 New Kingdom Builders reused this painted relief block in the foundation of Ramesses IV's mortuary temple, subsequently excavated by the Metropolitan Museum. In the relief, western Asian soldiers are shown being trampled under the horses that pull the royal chariot, signaling the foreigners' defeat in battle by the might of the Egyptian pharaoh. When the piece was excavated, this and another fragment of a battle scene () were dated to the reign of Ramesses II. A recent study of their stylistic and iconographic features, however, has caused scholars to redate them earlier, probably to the reign of Amenhotep II. This redating indicates that by the middle of the Eighteenth Dynasty, monumental battle scenes had become part of the decorative scheme of a temple's exterior Block from a Relief Depicting a Battle. ca. 1427–1400 Sandstone, paint. New Kingdom. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Asasif, Temple of Ramesses IV, foundation (reused), MMA excavations, 1912–13. Dynasty 18

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