ID: 700002945 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700002945	Record Type: Built Work
Images: 1

Colossi of Memnon (monumental sculpture; unknown Ancient Egyptian (architects); ; ca. 1350 BCE; Thebes, Necropolis of (Thebes, Qinā, Miṣr, Africa, Wor...; )

Note: Two large statues in Upper Egypt located in the Theban necropolis, originally at the entrance of a mortuary temple. The figures are both seated representations of Amenhotep III, on pedestals.

Titles:

Colossi of Memnon (preferred,C,U,English,,)

Catalog Level: object grouping

Work Types:

monumental sculpture [300400887] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, sculpture (visual works), <sculpture by form>)

Classifications:

sculptures (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1350 BCE

Creator Display:

unknown Ancient Egyptian (architects); [preferred,VP]

sculptors unknown Ancient Egyptian (Ancient Egyptian cultural designation) [500202838]

Locations:

Current: Thebes, Necropolis of [7029384] (Geographic)

Address Note: 25.720556 32.610556

Display Materials: quartzite

	quartzite [300011623]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, rock (inorganic material), metamorphic rock)

Dimensions: 14.3 x 5.43 m; 10.5 m (base depth); 720 metric tons (weight)

Cultures:

Ancient Egyptian (preferred)

General Subject:

portraits (preferred,description)

Specific Subjects:

	Amenhotep III, King of Egypt (Ancient Egyptian king, died ca. 1353 BCE) [500124618]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Built Works

.......... Built Works by class: monuments and monumental structures

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: carvings and sculptures

Sources and Contributors:
Colossi of Memnon	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ Getty Museum, Authority file (2003-)
	........ Heizer et al, Colossi of Memnon, Science (1973)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

....................... Heizer et al, Colossi of Memnon, Science (1973)

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Heizer et al, Colossi of Memnon, Science (1973)