Object in Focus: The Colossal Statue of Ramesses II

Anna Garnett is Assistant Project Curator in Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum. Her research interests include ceramics from New Kingdom Egyptian sites in Nubia, Egyptian royal sculpture and colossal statuary and New Kingdom religious architecture. She is currently working on the Amara West Project where her responsibilities include the study and publication of the ceramics excavated from the New Kingdom town at Amara West as part of an on-going British Museum fieldwork project.