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Colossus of Ramesses II

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Actually, there are a pair of Ramesses II statues -- one on its back in the museum in ancient Memphis and the other stands upright at the new Grand Museum.  They once stood at the Ptah Temple gate in Memphis.

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Ramesses II: one of four external seated statues at Abu Simbel

Ramesses II (c. 1303 BC – July or August 1213 BC; Egyptian: *Riʻmīsisu, alternatively transcribed as Rameses pron.: /ˈræməsz/ His successors and later Egyptians called him the "Great Ancestor." Ramesses II led several military expeditions into the Levant, re-asserting Egyptian control over Canaan. He also led expeditions to the south, into Nubia, commemorated in inscriptions at Beit el-Wali and Gerf Hussein.

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