200 .-- Head of Horemheb.] [Illustration: Fig.

201 .-- Colossal statue of Rameses II., Luxor.] It is unfortunate that Egyptian artists never signed their works; for the sculptor of this portrait of Horemheb deserves to be remembered.

Like the Eighteenth Dynasty, the Nineteenth Dynasty delighted in colossi.

Those of Rameses II.

at Luxor measured from eighteen to twenty feet in height (fig.
201); the colossal Rameses of the Ramesseum sat sixty feet high; and that of Tanis about seventy.[49] The colossi of Abu Simbel, without being of quite such formidable proportions, face the river in imposing array.