egypt-museum:Statue of Ramesses II as a child and the god HauronThis statue represents Ramesses II a
egypt-museum:Statue of Ramesses II as a child and the god HauronThis statue represents Ramesses II as a child, sitting in front of the Canaanite sun god Hauron, who is in the shape of a hawk. Ramesses is presented in the typical manner for an Egyptian child: naked, his finger to his mouth, with a large side-lock of youth hanging from the right side of his head. He also has a uraeus at his forehead, and a sun-disc above his head. He holds the sw-plant in his left hand. It has been argued that the statue can be read to spell out the name of the king: the sun-disc represents Ra, the child is mes, and the sw plant is the final element Ra-mes-sw. The limestone face of the hawk was found in a separate location from the rest of the piece. This statue was found in the ruins of a mud brick building at Tanis, which was part of a cluster of structures not far from the enclosure wall of the Great Temple of Amun. This was probably a part of a workshop, for the beak was found in an adjacent room. It was probably in the workshop for repair, which was never completed.Grey Granite and Limestone (falcon’s beak). Tanis Excavation: Pierre Montet’s Excavations of 1934. New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II, ca. 1279-1213 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 46735 -- source link