It would not represent Ramses II the statue found in Egypt a few days ago

The large statue found a few days ago in Egypt (and about whose discovery we had also reported on our pages) would not represent Pharaoh Ramses II, as was first thought (the statue had in fact resurfaced near a temple dedicated to Ramses himself).

Egypt’s minister of antiquities, Khaled el-Anani, said the eight-meter statue found in recent days could be a depiction of Pharaoh Psammeticus I, who ruled from 664 to 610 B.C.E.: in fact, it was discovered that one of the latter ruler’s five names is engraved on the statue. “If it were a statue depicting this pharaoh,” the minister told the Ahram newspaper, “it would be the largest Late Period statue in Egypt ever discovered.”

The fragments of the statue are now being examined by scholars. They are expected to be displayed at the Great Egyptian Museum in Giza, which is scheduled to open in 2018, but will likely be previewed to the public in a temporary exhibition.

Source: BBC - Ahram Online - Ansa

It would not represent Ramses II the statue found in Egypt a few days ago

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