Talk:Statue of Ramesses II

A fact from Statue of Ramesses II appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 August 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the recent transport of the colossal Statue of Ramesses II from Cairo to the Giza Plateau was preceded by a mock move several weeks prior?

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Broken link

first reference: http://www.egy.com/landmarks/07/08/97.shtml is now a 404. It probably should be removed. --JureCuhalev 17:11, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Link fixed. Ekem 14:29, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong Picture?

The photo on this page is of a different statue of Ramesses, not the one referred to in the text. does it realy belong here? --IdreamofJeanie (talk) 17:18, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

@IdreamofJeanie: The figure is correct but there are some mistakes in the text. The author mixed the limestone statue found in 1820 with the granite one found in 1882. Unfortunately, the provenience of both statues is the ancient Memphis near modern Mit Rahina. --RolandUnger (talk) 05:20, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge Colossus of Ramesses II here?

I could be mistaken, but I believe the Colossus of Ramesses II is essentially a page about the same topic. Merge? WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 02:00, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agree - duplication. There's useful information in both articles. I think the article should be under the title Statue of Ramesses II (Mit Rahina) as it is less ambiguous, given there are many colossal statues of Ramesses II. Chasuble (talk) 17:22, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actually they were both found at Mit Rahina, as well as numerous other Ramses statues in the Egyptian Museum. This one isn't at Memphis right now so the article's title should be 'Standing Statue of Ramesses II' and the other should remain as 'Colossus of Ramesses II' 41.235.149.220 (talk) 12:53, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No Merge: Not a duplication. I moved the 10 m statue now under the Memphis section, for the time being, but it may need its own article. The Memphis statue was never broken, the 11 m Mit Rahina statue which is the topic of the article had been in Cairo after it had been repaired.Also, the second picture does not belong here. Ekem (talk) 19:25, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I see that now. This one has a big kettle on his head. So does anyone have a good reference for the one in Memphis? I'll take down the picture and the coordinates (which are for the open air museum where the picture is from). Wknight94 ^talk 02:20, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Weight

Jedsmith1 contributes some information about the likely weight of the statue. I am moving his discussion here, rather than the main article. If this is supported by any source then by all means update the “83” in the main article to the correct value.

jedsmith1 wrote:

[Note: A quarried block of granite weighing 400 tons would not result in a statue weighing only 83 tons, so the "83 tons" number is in error or was mistyped and should have had an additional number in front of it, as in: "83 was 383, or 483" originally. Consider: The Colossi of Memnon weighed about 720 tons each and the broken colossal statue at the Ramesseum is estimated to have weighed over 1,000 tons, so you can see the problem. Even huge granite boxes in the Serapeum are estimated to weigh 50-60 tons and they are all hollowed out.] Parsons nose (talk) 03:57, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]