Editing Ramesses IX (section)

==Family==
[[File:RamessesIX-Relief MetropolitanMuseum.png|thumb|Relief of the pharaoh Ramesses IX from the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]]] 
Ramesses IX is known to have had two sons: at [[Heliopolis (Ancient Egypt)|Heliopolis]], "a gateway was reinscribed with texts including the king's names and also those of the prince and High Priest Nebmaatre, who was fairly certainly his son."<ref>Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, ''The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt''. Thames & Hudson, 2004. p.191.  {{isbn|978-977-424-957-0}}</ref> Ramesses IX's second son, Montuherkhopshef C, perhaps this king's intended heir, who did not live long enough to succeed his father, took over the former [[KV19]] tomb of Sethirkhepsef B in the [[Valley of the Kings]].<ref>Dodson & Hilton, p.191</ref> The throne was instead assumed by [[Ramesses X]] whose precise relationship to Ramesses IX is unclear. Ramesses X might have been Ramesses IX's son, but this assumption remains unproven. Tomb KV19, which was one of the most beautifully decorated tombs in the royal valley, had been abandoned by Sethirkhepsef B when the latter assumed the throne as king [[Ramesses VIII]] and one of prince Montuherkhopshef's depictions there "bears the prenomen cartouche to Ramesses IX on its belt" thereby establishing the identity of this prince's father.<ref>Dodson & Hilton, p.191</ref>  The tomb of Ramesses IX, [[KV6]], has been open since antiquity, as is evidenced by the presence of [[Latin|Roman]] and [[Greek language|Greek]] [[graffiti]] on the tomb walls. It is quite long in the tradition of the 'syringe' tunnels of the later 19th and 20th Dynasties and lies directly opposite the tomb of [[Ramesses II]] in the Valley of the Kings; this fact may have influenced Ramesses IX's choice of location for his final resting place due to its proximity to this great Pharaoh.<ref>Clayton, p.170</ref> While Ramesses IX's chief queen is not precisely identified in surviving Egyptian inscriptions, she was most likely [[Baketwernel]].<ref>Dodson & Hilton, p.191</ref>