In Ramesses II 8th year of reign he crossed the Dog River (Nahr al-Kalb) and pushed north into Amurru. His armies managed to march as far north as Dapur,[32] where he had a statue of himself erected. The Egyptian pharaoh thus found himself in northern Amurru, well past Kadesh, in Tunip, where no Egyptian soldier had been seen since the time of Thutmose III. He laid siege to the city before capturing it.
The town which the king [Ramessess II] plundered in Year 8 – Shalem.