Colossal find (Ramses II statue at Akhmim)

Al-Ahram Weekly ^ | 12 - 18 August 2004, issue #703 | staff writer

[SunkenCiv]

The remains of a colossal seated statue of Ramses II, thought to be about 13 metres tall and weighing 700 tons, have been discovered in a shanty area of the Upper Egyptian city of Akhmim, adjacent to the open-air museum. The lower part of the limestone statue is seated on a throne, to the right and left of which are figures of two of the pharaoh's daughters and princess- queens, Merit-Amun and Bint-Anath. The statue and the throne are carved from a single block and stand on a huge limestone base covered with carved hieroglyphic texts.

[SunkenCiv]

saw Zahi Hawass' article on the dig in this Spring 2005 issue of KMT:

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[SunkenCiv]

My mistake, 700 tons. :')

[SunkenCiv]

Also of interest, Ramses II had an Amarna-era statue rededicated to his daughter Meritamen (who was also one of his wives; this is one family tree you don't wanna climb ;'), just as he also had the columnade at Karnak (constructed by King Tut, another Amarna-era figure) rededicated to himself, and Tut's name struck out. The cartouches near the top of these tall structures still have Tut's name, no one felt like climbing up that high, and they couldn't be seen from the floor.

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[SunkenCiv]

The ping went awry. Clicked "post" instead of "preview", and had the box checked.

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[SunkenCiv]

Akhmim Wooden Tablet
Eric W. Weisstein et al
contributed by Milo Gardner

The Akhmim wooden tablet, often called the Cairo wooden tablet, is a document dating to 2000 BC, near the beginning of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom. It is housed in the Egypt Museum in Cairo... The student scribe was then asked to prove his/her division by multiplying by 3, 7, 10, 11, 13, as required, to find the complete 1/64th unit. Since the student compiling this tablet made many arithmetic errors in the duplication arithmetic, even a 2002 translation of the document did not fully recognize the exact nature of all the division operations. The Rhind papyrus also contains one of these problems, division by 3, leading to confusion by Gillings (1972) and others. The importance of the tablet is that the system of Egyptian fractions may have originated in trying to divide the smallest grain units or some other units in ancient Egyptian history.l

It's kinda like "always wear clean underwear", but related to math, and posterity...

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[SittinYonder]

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

[nopardons]

Okay,at least it worked this time. :-)

[SunkenCiv]

That's the guy! :')

[SunkenCiv]

Oddly enough, your reply to me showed up on "my comments", but wasn't actually in the topic when I popped back in, until after I replied a minute ago to SittinYonder.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.savagenet.com/oz/

[SunkenCiv]

related:

Theban Mapping Project (Valley of the Kings etc)
Theban Mapping Project | 1980s to present | Kent Weeks et al
Posted on 01/13/2005 8:03:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1320504/posts

[SunkenCiv]

oops, should have included this, a link to the page for KV7, Ramses II's tomb:

http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_821.html

[SunkenCiv]

Mummy of Rameses II
http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/database/image.asp?ID=18794

[nopardons]

How strange!

[-=Wing_0_Walker=-]

Interesting that Zahi HawASS' article was taken so seriously.
One has to wonder, how could such mathematical morons perform the calculations needed to build a pyramid?

[Berosus]

If doing math in hieroglyphics is anything like writing, I can understand why that student found it so tough. The only subject that would have been easier, IMHO, would have been art--if you can draw you can write! Egyptian teachers didn't make it any easier, either; their favorite saying was, "A boy's ears are on his back."

Sometimes I think the real reason why schools used to concentrate on the 3 "R"s is because by the time they got done teaching that, you were almost grown up and there wasn't much time left for anything else!

[Physicist]

A shattered visage, certainly, but I see no frown, nor wrinkled lip, nor sneer of cold command.

[ruoflaw]

many thanks for this article...it is great news and you are right, we wouldn't want to climb that family tree!

[SunkenCiv]

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The Pyramids: An Enigma Solved by Joseph Davidovits, contr by Margie Morris

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