#younger memnon

[sulphurousvisions]

British Museum London

Kentmere 400

[egypt-ancient-and-modern]

The Younger Memnon, part of a colossal statue from the Ramesseum

[itsacon10]

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. 

- Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source - Younger Memnon statue from the Ramesseum, Thebes, currently at the British Museum and possibly the inspiration for Shelley

[sulphurousvisions]

British Museum London

Kentmere 400

[nickysfacts]

The Younger Memnon is probably one of the most impactful sculptures in world history, yet very few know about it today𓀲

[straightmaxin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Memnon