The colossal in Mnemone are two great statues that represent Amenhotep III that reach fifteen meters of height (without counting the supporting base) and seven-hundred tons of weight. Their size impressed the visitors of the ancient time and particularly the Greek. Actually the sovereign didn’t have the strong physique that the Egyptians had handed down to the descendants with the representation in the gigantic monuments. Actually the sovereign was small, rather fat and of a delicate health.

That’s how they had to appear, before the ancient Egyptians, Amenhotep’s III colossal. The king’s gigantic statues were in front of his funeral temple, today destroyed, one of the most impressive ones in western Tebe. Its ruin was caused by time and by man who used its materials to build the villages nearby.