Friday 05/Sep/2025 – 07:22 AM
The Grand Egyptian Museum displays one of the most prominent treasures of sunken antiquities, a huge statue of one of the Ptolemaic queens made of pink granite, and dates back to the period between the fourth and third century BC.
Show the statue of a penma queen from the mowers of the Grand Egyptian Museum
The statue, which is about five meters high and weighs nearly four tons, was depicted in the form of the goddess Isis, wearing the crown consisting of two centuries in the middle of the sun disk, in addition to a narrow, transparent robe that starts from the shoulder and ends at the feet, with a belt around the center, its limbs are longitudinally.
The statue was discovered in 2000 in the city of Heraklion, who was sunken in the Gulf of Abi Qir, during the European Institute of Marine Antiquities Mission in cooperation with the Central Administration of the sunken antiquities, and the statue was mortar to four parts, before it was carried out with accurate restoration and maintenance in the department’s stores, to be re -collected and enjoys displayed in several international exhibitions.
This statue is the second largest statue found in the sunken city of Heraklion, and it is scheduled to be one of the most prominent pieces offered in the halls of the Grand Egyptian Museum at the opening.
