Base slab for a huge statue, discovered at Aksum, Ethiopia by a German Expedition in 1906. It bore two depressions, 5 cm deep and 92 cm long in the shape of human feet. It is estimated it was about 5.5-6 meters tall. [1114×726]
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Base slab for a huge statue, discovered at Aksum, Ethiopia by a German Expedition in 1906. It bore two depressions, 5 cm deep and 92 cm long in the shape of human feet. It is estimated it was about 5.5-6 meters tall. [1114×726]
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The statue base unfortunately, missing since its 1906 discovery and untraceable since, featured foot-shaped indents suggesting a remarkable metal statue of 5.5 to 6.0 meters tall an unmatched height, rivaled only by some grand [Greek](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Foundations_of_an_African_Civilisation/Q8_CAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=aksumite+92+cm&pg=PA137&printsec=frontcover) bronze and chryselephantine sculptures at that time
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.