By Jacqueline Engel
Hurgada Museum
This statue is a depiction of the royal ka of King Ramses II” the Great” 1279-1213 BC of the 19th Dynasty.
The ka can be understood as a combination of both someone’s character, and their life force.
The word ka was written with a hieroglyph in the shape of two upraised ams.
The King as the point of contact between the human and divine worlds, was possessed by a different vital force: the royal ka.
Every king in ancient Egyptian History was believed to have been possessed by It.
The presence of the ka hieroglyph on the head of this statue identifies it as a represetation, not as King Ramses II himself, but of his royal ka.
This statue, discovered in December 2019, is only the second statue of its kind to have ever been recovered.
It was found in Mit Rahina, near modern Cairo, next to the site of the Great Temple of Ptah in the ancient capital of Memphis.
The first known royal-ka statue discovered in 1894, was that of the little known 13th Dynasty (1795-1650 BC) king, Auibre Hor, which is on display in the Egyptian Museum in Calro.
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