Familiar with Ramses II Statue Depicting Him as Child!

By Ali Abu Dashish and Maydaa Abo El-Nadar

CAIRO, Jan. 4 (SEE) – Statue of Ramses II, that depicts him as a child kneeling under the protection of a falcon, was described by the head of the Antiquities Museum and the Zahi Hawass Center of Egyptology’s supervisor at Bibliotheca Alexandria archaeologist Hussien Abdel Basir, as one of the most beautiful statues.

The statue’s face was sculpted from limestone after it had suffered damage before. One of the most beautiful aspects is that the statue shows Ramses II’s name in the ancient Egyptian language “Ra Msi Su” which means that god Ra is protecting the king himself. The name is introduced through by three means: the sun stands for Ra, while the child for the verb “Msi” that means to give birth and Plant “Su” held by the king for ancient Egyptian pronoun “Su” that means “He”.

Writing the name this way is known as cryptography, encryption, or cryptology that means the science of practicing the data’s hiding or coding. In other words, data (such as writing) is converted from its normal shape to shape only understood for whom domains a certain knowledge.

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Ramses II’s titles were written at the base of the statue carved from the gray granite. Its dimensions are about 64.5 cm and its height about 133 cm. It is found at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir.

It is known historically that, Ramses II’s eldest son, ruled Egypt after his father. Seti I was Egypt’s king for almost 67 years. Ramses II managed to construct several monuments across Egyptian soil including: Karnak,Thebes, Abydos, Tanis, Memphis, and Nubia. The city of Bar Ra Ramses, at Sharqia governorate, was the royal headquarter of Ramses II. Bar Ra Ramses is currently known as Kantir and is affiliated to Faqos. Still Thebes remained the principal religious center and the cemetery where kings and the state’s senior officials were buried.

Many of Ramses II monuments are displayed at the Egyptian Museum as well as international museums. Dozens of Ramses II’s statues are huge. His statues show the special artistic characteristics of his ruling period.

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