[1] Other colossal statues of Amenhotep III include the two Colossi of Memnon, which still stand at his mortuary temple at Kom el-Hitan.

[1] The broken statue was discovered in the temple enclosure of Mut at Karnak by Giovanni Battista Belzoni and Henry William Beechey in 1817.

After being uncovered, the head needed to be moved to Luxor on the Nile for transport upriver to Alexandria and thence to London.

[1] The head was stored for a period in the house of a Signor Rossi in Cairo: One evening, Salt took him [a Captain FitzClarence] to call on Signor Rossi, where he had deposited some interesting items brought from the neighbourhood of Thebes, including a head of "Orus", "10 feet from the top of the mitre to the chin, having a band at the bottom part of it not unlike a turban ... made of red granite ... and in a very fine state of preservation ... an arm 18 feet long of the same statue with the fist clenched.

"[2]The head is 2.9 meters high, and is depicted wearing the pschent, the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.