The Colossi of Memnon (Arabic: el-Colossat or es-Salamat) are two massive stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III, which stand at the front of the ruined Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III, the largest temple in the Theban Necropolis. They have stood since 1350 BC, and were well known to ancient Greeks and Romans, as well as early modern travelers and Egyptologists.[1][2] The statues contain 107 Roman-era inscriptions in Greek and Latin, dated to between AD 20 and 250; many of these inscriptions on the northernmost statue make reference to the Greek mythological king Memnon, whom the statue was then – erroneously – thought to represent.[3]
Scholars have debated how the identification of the northern colossus as "Memnon" is connected to the Greek name for the entire Theban Necropolis as the Memnonium.[4]
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^Adam Łukaszewicz, MEMNON, KING OF EGYPT, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Vol. XXV, 1995, pp. 131-146: "Are two different etymologies of Memnonia and Memnon possible in the same area? We are approaching again the very essence of the problem. Is the name of Memnonia a derivative of the appellation of the vocal colossus or is that name independent from the name of Memnon applied to the statue of Amenhotep III? Consequently, the question is whether there was an Egyptian Memnon different from Amenhotep III or was the name of Nebmaatre the unique source of the Memnonian place-names in western Thebes?"
the ColossiofMemnon. According to Pliny the Elder and others, one statue made a sound at morning time. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Memnon. Emathion...
branch of the Nile on the west side of the Nile Valley. It ran approximately south–north with the ColossiofMemnon placed on the west bank of the river...
statue of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great ColossiofMemnon, two stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III Colossus of Nero, a bronze statue of the...
construction projects. All that remained standing was the gateway with the ColossiofMemnon — two massive stone statues depicting Amenhotep,18 m (59 ft) high...
silicified sandstone or quartzite Some of the monuments known to come from this site are: The ColossiofMemnon The Mokattam hills are a site located near...
archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean.: 15–16 In 1973, Asaro and his colleagues embarked on a study of the ColossiofMemnon, two statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep...
desert, passing the ColossiofMemnon and the Sphinx. As he addresses the Sphinx, believing it to be the Bøyg, he encounters the keeper of the local madhouse...
of Amenhotep III were associated with Memnon in classical times, and are still known as the ColossiofMemnon. The British Museum sculpture and its pair...
temple of Mentuhotep II, and that of Amenhotep III, of which the only major extant remains are the ColossiofMemnon. The mortuary temple of Hatshesput...
Roman writers, about a range of monuments in Upper Egypt and Nubia, including Karnak, Luxor temple, the ColossiofMemnon, Esna, Edfu, Kom Ombo, Philae...
six colossiof Amenhotep III (ColossiofMemnon), there are no longer complete remains, so the heights are based on unconfirmed estimates. Remains of the...
of Amenhotep III, Seti I and Ramesses III. The latter two may be copies of the first one. The river god Hapi uniting Upper and Lower Egypt. Colossi of...
the ColossiofMemnon, which were moved in ancient times. In art, in situ refers to a work of art made specifically for a host site, or that a work of art...
Temple as seen from River Nile Panoramic view of Luxor Luxor Temple Central corridor and four colossi by night Ramesses II colossus inside Luxor Temple...
romanized: castle ofMemnon) and was associated with Memnon. This name survives in ColossiofMemnon. Just left of the entrance to the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses...
Temple of Ay & Horemheb Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III ColossiofMemnon Mortuary Temple of Merneptah Mortuary Temple of Ramesses IV Mortuary Temple of Thutmose...
of Lake Superior and Lake Michigan and in other places. Bouncing stones Bruce Peninsula National Park – National park in Ontario, Canada Colossiof Memnon –...
Northern statue of the ColossiofMemnon is shattered by an earthquake in Egypt (according to Strabo). Marcus Agrippa begins the construction of the old Pantheon...
stones of the ColossiofMemnon. Under Nero, the Romans fought a campaign (55–63) against the Parthian Empire, which had invaded the kingdom of Armenia...
one of Lord Dunsany's tales--"The unreverberate blackness of the abyss." The paragraph goes on to quote the Irish poet Thomas Moore. The Colossiof Memnon...
Paul Emile Botta and Victor Place attempted to move two additional 30-ton colossi to Paris from Khorsabad in 1853. To facilitate their shipment to Paris...
the side of the barque. Along with her daughter-in-law, Tiye, she also is shown on the ColossiofMemnon erected by Amenhotep III. The date of Mutemwiya's...
numerous monuments, including the palace of Malqata, the ColossiofMemnon, and extensive expansions of the Temples of Karnak and Luxor, and has more surviving...
considered significant. Archaeological data preserves information about women of different classes and social standings, while also saving details that might...
epigrams are a part of four epigrams recorded which are inscribed and are preserved on the lower sections of one of the ColossiofMemnon. These are two massive...
Quintus Pomponius Marcellus as his colleague. An inscription on the ColossiofMemnon at Luxor in Egypt refers to a Marcus Herennius M.f. Quir. Faustus...
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