The Pedestals of Biahmu are the basal remnants of two colossal statues erected by the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenemhat III. The ruins, which once stood on the shore of Lake Moeris, are located in the Faiyum Oasis 4 miles (6.4 km) north of the city Faiyum. The actual statues were long ago destroyed and only their bases have survived.
One of the Pedestals of Biahmu (2006)
A drawing of the ruins made by Karl Richard Lepsius in 1849
Amenemhat III, also known as Amenemhet III, was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and the sixth king of the Twelfth Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom. He was elevated to throne as co-regent by his father Senusret III, with whom he shared the throne as the active king for twenty years. During his reign, Egypt attained its cultural and economic zenith of the Middle Kingdom.
Statue of Amenemhat III in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow
Pectoral of Amenemhat III from the tomb of Mereret at Dahshur, one of his sisters
Amenemhat III as a recumbent sphinx, one of the so-called "Hyksos sphinxes"
One of the naos from the funerary temple of Amenemhat III at Hawara, now located in the Egyptian Museum at Cairo. The left figure, flexing his arm across his chest in order to bring a sign "ankh" (life) to the face of his partner, is Amenemhat III. The king on the right is his son and sucessor, Amenemhat IV.
