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Upper part of a colossal seated statue of Ramesses II   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Title
Upper part of a colossal seated statue of Ramesses II
Object type sculpture
object_type QS:P31,Q860861
Description
From the Ramesseum, western Thebes. One of a pair set up in the king's mortuary temple. The granite is naturally two colours, and was worked deliberately to draw a distinction between the head and body. The hole in the chest appeared before AD 1817, may have been made by Napoleon's expedition trying to remove the statue.
Date 19. dynasty, about 1270 BC
Medium granite
Dimensions 7.25 tons
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Accession number
EA 19
Object history Gift of Burckhadt and H. Salt, 1818
Source/Photographer Own work, Photo by Szilas in the British Museum, 2010-07-30

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