President Trump announced a 30-day ban on travel from European countries to the United States, beginning on Friday at midnight, in a bid “to keep new cases” of coronavirus “from entering our shores.” The restrictions, he said late Wednesday, do not apply to travelers from the United Kingdom.
Homeland Security officials said the travel restrictions would only apply to foreign nationals, not American citizens or legal permanent residents, who have been in the Schengen region, 26 countries in Europe with open borders agreements, in the last 14 days. After Trump’s announcement, the State Department issued an advisory informing U.S. citizens to “reconsider travel abroad” as a result of outbreaks around the globe.
Trump also announced economic measures that he said would help the country overcome “temporary economic disruptions” caused by the disease.
Statue of Ramesses II as a child and the god Hauron
This statue represents Ramesses II as a child, sitting in front of the Canaanite sun god Hauron, who is in the shape of a hawk. Ramesses is presented in the typical manner for an Egyptian child: naked, his finger to his mouth, with a large side-lock of youth hanging from the right side of his head.
He also has a uraeus at his forehead, and a sun-disc above his head. He holds the sw-plant in his left hand. It has been argued that the statue can be read to spell out the name of the king: the sun-disc represents Ra, the child is mes, and the sw plant is the final element Ra-mes-sw. The limestone face of the hawk was found in a separate location from the rest of the piece.
Grey granite and limestone (falcon’s beak). Pierre Montet’s excavations of 1934. New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II, ca. 1279-1213 BC. From Tanis. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 46735
Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of both plagues and of healing. She giveth, she taketh away.
This was kind of experimental but it was fun and I think it worked well. I look forward to doing more like it. This piece has tentatively found a home pending payment but I can do customs like it
