[Illustration: Statue of Rameses II, with the name of Mer-en-Ptaḥ I cut on the shoulders and breast. [Central Saloon, No. 577.] Upper part of a statue of Rameses II. Found on the Island of Elephantine. [Central Saloon, Bay 14, No. 582.]] [Illustration: PLATE XXXIX. Upper portions of a colossal statue of Rameses II, B.C. 1330. [Central Saloon, No. 576.]] The monuments of this reign are very numerous, and among them may be noted the following: Wooden =Ka-figure= of Rameses II, from his tomb at Thebes (Central Saloon, No. =575=). Upper portion of a colossal granite =statue of Rameses II=, which was originally painted red, and was one of a pair that stood in the Ramesseum in Western Thebes (see =Plate XXXIX=); weight about 7 tons 5 cwt. (Central Saloon, No. =576=). Colossal =statue of Rameses II=, on the shoulders and breast of which are cut the prenomen and name of =Seti Mer-en-Ptaḥ= (Central Saloon, No. =577=). Statue of Rameses II from Elephantine (Bay 14, No. =582=). Kneeling statue of Rameses II, holding before him a tablet of offerings (Bay 17, No. =584=). Portion of a statue of Rameses II; on one side of the plinth is sculptured a figure of a favourite wife called =Batau-ānth=: from Ṣarâbît al-Khâdim in the Peninsula of Sinai (Central Saloon, No. =587=). With these should be compared the =cast= of the head of a colossal statue of the king which was set up before the temple of Ptaḥ at Memphis (Central Saloon, No. =588=), and the =cast= of another colossal statue of the king at Abû-Simbel (Vestibule, No. =589=). The width of the face of the latter is 8 feet 9 inches, and the length from brow to chin is 9 feet 8 inches. From the temple built by Rameses at Abydos comes the famous King List, or =Second Tablet of Abydos=, which, when complete, contained the prenomens of 52 of his predecessors on the throne of Egypt (Bay 6, No. =592=); from Athribis (Benha) comes the =granite lion= (Bay 14, No. =593=); from Abû-Simbel the interesting pair of =hawk-headed sphinxes= (Bay 15, Nos. =594=, =595=); from Pithom the =granite hawk= (Central Saloon, No. =596=); and from Memphis the =fist= of a colossal statue (Bay 16, No. =597=). Of considerable interest, too, are the =granite columns= (Nos. =598=, =599=). The first is from the temple of Bubastis, and on it, in places, are seen the names of =Osorkon II=; its total height is 20 feet 8 inches and its weight about 11 tons 5 cwt. The second is monolithic and is from the temple of Ḥeru-shefit, the Arsaphes of the Greeks at Herakleopolis; in places the names of =Menephthah I= have been added. Its height is 17 feet 2 inches, and its weight about 6 tons 12 cwt. The =altar= of Rameses II is in Bay 16 (No. =600=). In connexion with the colossal statues of this period may be noted the upper portions of two =statues of Queens= or goddesses, in the Central Saloon, Nos. =601=, =602=. They were found by Belzoni at Abû-Simbel, and most probably represent wives of Rameses II.