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 Fig. 30. Colossal Portrait Figure of Ramses II at Abu Simbel IN Egyptian Nubia Four such statues, seventy-five feet high, adorn the front of this templCo They are better preserved than those in Fig. 29, and show us that such vast figures were portraits. The face of Ramses II here closely re- sembles that of his mummy. Grand view of the Nubian Nile, on which the statues have looked down for thirty-two hundred years (see p. 49). View taken from the top of the crown of one of the statues and never before pubhshed. (Photograph by The University of Chicago Expedition)