Ramesses II smiting a Nubian

Ramesses II smiting a Nubian, depicted in the Temple of Beit el-Wali; a rock-cut temple the king had built in the Nubian region for seemingly propagandist reasoning.

The temple was dedicated to the deities; Ra-Horakhty, Amun-Ra, Anuket and Khnum (feminine & masculine Nile deities).

The Temple of Beit el-Wali was relocated to higher ground in the 1960s for preservation reasoning after the building of the Aswan High Dam. Today the temple stands safely in Qism Aswan, Aswan Governorate.