Ramesses II. 대영박물관(The British Museum). 런던(London)

Ramesses II. 대영박물관(The British Museum).

런던(London). 영국(England)

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The later New Kingdom

 

Ramesses II

19 th Dynasty, about 1270 BC

From the Ramesseum, western Thebes

 

This is the upper part of a seated statue, one of a pair set up in the king's mortuary temple. The granite is naturally two colours, and was deliberately worked to draw a distinction between the head and body. The hole in the chest, which appeared before AD 1817, may have been made by Napoleon's expedition trying to remove the statue.

 

Granite

Gift of J.L, Burckhardt and H. Salt, 1818

 

Ramesses II erected more colossal statues than any other Egyptian king. Those at his mortuary temple, the Ramesseum, on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes, are among the finest. You can see parts of an even larger statue still lying there in the photograph.

 

These colossal sculptures were the inspiration for Shelley's poem Ozymandias:

 

I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said : Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,

Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown

And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read.

Which yet survive, stamp'd  on these lifeless things,

The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed,

And on the pedestal  these words appear:

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair !"

Nothing beside remains: round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

                                                                                 Perci Bysshe Shelley, 1818

 

 

 Ramesses II  Statue, EA 67 has been removed from display for temporary loan to the touring exhibition Pharaoh, King of Egypt at The Great North Museum (Newcastle), Dorset County Museum, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum and Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery It wiil return to display by July 2013.

 

Royal temple statues

Sculptures of kings in Egyptian temples empasised both their royal authority and devotion to the gods. Many of the statues were large enough to act as architectural features, complementing the colonnades and gateways of temples. They were often set up in pairs or larger groups, distributed around the axis of the building. Most sculptures were originally painted in lifelike colours, even over hard stone.

 

 

For further information please

contact the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan via the Information Desk in the Great Court, or email;

egyptian@thebritishmuseum.org.

 

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