COLOSSUS, COLOSSI

    Enormous statues of divinities or royal persons found in some of the temples: in the temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel (in front of the facade and as columns in the form of the god Osiris); as columns in the form of *Akhenaten in his Aten temple at Thebes; and as the Colossi of Memnon which once flanked the entrance to *Amenophis III's Theban mortuary temple.