Biahmu

Some 4.5mi/7km north of Medinet el-Fayyum is the village of Biahmu, just north of which are two large structures of dressed stone, with the appearance of ruined pyramids, which are known to the local people as the Kursi Faraun ("Pharaoh's Chair") and El-Sanam, "The Idol". These were the bases of two colossal sandstone statues of Amenemhet III. The learned Father Vanslebof Erfurtsaw the lower part of one of the figures in 1672, and Lepsius and Petrie found a few remaining fragments. Petrie estimated their original height at 40ft/12m. The bases were once washed by the waters of Lake Moeris, and there is little doubt that they are the two pyramids described by Herodotus as standing in the lake, each crowned by a colossal seated human figure