Egypt’s Ramses Gets a New Home Among Pyramids
VOA | Aug. 25, 2006 | Leslie Boctor
Posted on 08/26/2006 1:19:40 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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Egypt announces discovery of Ramses II statues
Reuters | Feb. 26, 2006 | Reuters
Posted on 02/26/2006 2:49:43 PM PST by FairOpinion
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Colossal find (Ramses II statue at Akhmim)
Al-Ahram Weekly | 12 - 18 August 2004, issue #703 | staff writer
Posted on 03/22/2005 11:28:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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According to one source:
Ozymandias, incidentally, was Rameses II, who was survived by his pyramid if nothing else. The poem itself was inspired by a shattered colossus in the Ramesseum, his funeral temple, of which the EB says ‘This temple is
identified with the “Tomb of Osymandias” (a corruption of Ramses II’s prenomen) described by the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus in the 1st century BC’ - an inscription on the statue’s base read
I am Ozymandias, King of kings.
If anyone would know how great I am and where I lie,
let him surpass any of my works.
Of course, Shelley rendered it immortal in his sonnet:
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert ... Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works ye mighty and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
