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Colossus of a Ptolemaic King
Ancient Egyptian · maker unknown
Five-metre granite statue of a Ptolemaic king recovered by underwater excavation at the sunken city of Thonis-Heracleion and now displayed in GEM's Grand Hall.
- Date
- Ptolemaic Period
- Collection
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Reference
- 48136
Plate not recorded
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Record
- Culture
- Ancient Egyptian
- Medium
- Granite
- Dimensions
- Height 500 cm; width 75 cm; length 150 cm
- Origin
- Egypt
In the Tapestry
- Culture of origin
- Ancient EgyptA
- Culture of origin
- Ptolemaic KingdomA
Provenance and history
Ptolemaic Period
CreatedA
Sources
- A
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