British Museum joins statue parts

Suite101 (Stan Parchin)

A fiberglass cast of the British Museum's quartzite Head of Amenhotep III (r. 1390-1362 B.C.) has been joined to the body of a colossal statue of the pharaoh recently discovered at Kom el-Hettan, a site near modern Luxor in Egypt. The reproduction was hand-painted to match the sculpture's original coloring.

See the above page for more. There are photographs of the statue on the British Museum's website.