South of the first court are the remains of the palace which Ramses
built for himself, with what seems to us curious callousness, in the closest
connexion with his own mortuary temple .
The existence of this building, long
suspected, was demonstrated by the excavations of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York, in 1913 . Two palaces, or traces of them, have been found, both
dating from the time of Ramses III .
The alabaster dais of the throne-room of the later palace, with its
columns and stepped approach, is one of the interesting results of the
excavations, and corresponds pretty closely with the results reached for the
throne-room of Meneptah by the Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania .
Beside it are the royal bedroom, with a dais in a recess for the bed,
bathrooms, rooms for the harem, with a place for the throne, and three suites
of rooms for the harem ladies, each with two living-rooms, a dressing-room, and
a bathroom . The water-supply of the palace was secured by a well which was
reached by a staircase, whose walls bear the names of Ramses and figures of
water-gods .
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