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Summary The statue will remain at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for the next ten years.
A colossal, 4,000-year-old statue of a seated Egyptian pharaoh will be visiting The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for the next ten years.The Met announced that the sculpture is going on loan from a Berlin museum that is renovating a courtyard where the piece was most recently displayed.The 10-foot (3.05-metre)-tall, 9-ton sculpture was carved from a single block of stone and erected in a temple near present-day Cairo.It is believed to depict the third king of the 12th dynasty pharaoh. He sits on a throne, wearing a kilt and a royal head cloth; a cobra on his forehead symbolizes his authority.The sculpture will initially sit in the Mets Great Hall beginning this month. It has been in the German museums collection since 1837.
