Ancient Egyptian Granite Statues

The head and an arm.

Ancient egyptian granite statues. Considering that this dating was based on pottery items that were found and not the boxes themselves it would be reasonable to speculate that the boxes have not been dated accurately. Cast stone sculptures reproductions. Yet the boxes in the serapeum were ascribed to the 18 th dynasty over 1100 years later when stone working was supposedly in decline. The colossal red granite statue of amenhotep iii is a granite head of the 18th dynasty ancient egyptian pharaoh amenhotep iii.

The statue is made of black granite and measures 1 85 meters in height revealed fathy yassin director general of west luxor antiquities. In it horus is represented with a hawk s head and a kilt. Beautiful ancient egyptian stone idol statue with ancient egyptian amulet. Visitors in room 4 standing by the rosetta stone.

The egyptian statues of the gods and pharaohs were made from a variety of stones like granite basalt alabaster limestone gneiss gypsum graywacke and gesso. Egyptian statue sphinx 70 mm natural carved stone. For instance already in the predynastic period we find figurines carved from lapis lazuli a lustrous blue stone that originates in what is now afghanistan and indicates the early presence of robust trade routes. This is a damaged statue as it has lost some of the lower legs and body.

Egyptian artists used a wide array of materials both local and imported from very early in their history. Both parts are now in the british museum. Our egyptian sculpture gallery offers various examples of egyptian art egyptian statues and egyptian busts of various ancient egyptian pharaohs and egyptian queens including akhenaten thutmose seti khafre tutankhamen nefertiti and ramses. Younger memnon is an ancient egyptian statue that represents one colossal granite head from the ramesseum mortuary temple in thebes upper egypt.

A very beautiful ancient egyptian jasper stone idol statue from ancient egypt. Ramesses ii ruler of rulers who reigned through most of the 13th century bc. The largest egyptian sculpture in the british museum represents one of egypt s greatest kings. The statue of the ancient egyptian god was unearthed during excavations of the remains of the house of millions of years temple for amenhotep iii.

The rosetta stone is famous around the world for having served as the key to deciphering the ancient egyptian language and hieroglyphic script. The granite box inside khafre s pyramid has the same characteristics as the boxes inside the serapeum. Two parts of the broken colossal statue are known. The sphinxes and statues were still executed by egyptian sculptors but in the grey or black granite of hammanat or the sinai peninsula rather than the red granite of assouan.

Initially flint tools were used but they were later on replaced by tools made from copper. Dating from around 1370 bc it was found in the temple enclosure of mut at karnak in upper egypt.