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Statue of Horemheb and Amenia

The Statue of Horemheb and Amenia is an unfinished limestone double statue of the Egyptian general and later pharaoh Horemheb with his wife, made for his Saqqara tomb.

Statue of Iddi-Ilum

The Statue of Iddi-Ilum, also known as the Statue of Iddin-Ilum, is a headless steatite statue of the governor of Mari, carved around 2090 BC and held in the Louvre.

Statue of Idrimi

The Statue of Idrimi is an inscribed magnesite statue of King Idrimi of Alalakh in southern Turkey, bearing a 104-line Akkadian autobiography and held in the British Museum.

Statue of Karomama, the Divine Adoratrice of Amun

The Statue of Karomama is a bronze statue of the Egyptian priestess Karomama Meritmut, Divine Adoratrice of Amun, made around 850 BC and held in the Louvre.

Statue of Kobe and Gianna Bryant

Bronze statue of Kobe and Gianna Bryant unveiled August 2, 2024, outside Crypto.com Arena; second of three planned Kobe Bryant statues, depicting the pair courtside at a December 2019 Lakers game.

Statue of Kobe Bryant

Statue of Kobe Bryant: 19-foot, 4,000-pound bronze at Star Plaza outside Crypto.com Arena, unveiled February 8, 2024, first of three planned Lakers statues, depicting his 81-point game pose, sculpted by Julie Rotblatt Amrany.

Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty (La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal copper sculpture by Bartholdi with an Eiffel iron framework, a French gift dedicated in New York Harbor on October 28, 1886, later an immigration symbol.

Statue of Liberty National Monument

Statue of Liberty National Monument is a US National Park Service unit in New York Harbor protecting the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island and Ellis Island. Established 1924, NPS-administered since 1933, ferry-only access, 3.7 million visitors in 2023.

Statue of Millicent Fawcett

Bronze statue of suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett by Gillian Wearing, unveiled 24 April 2018 in Parliament Square, London; first statue there of a woman and by a woman, with 59 suffrage campaigners named on its plinth.

Statue of Napir-Asu

The Statue of Napir-Asu is a life-size bronze statue of Queen Napir-Asu, wife of King Untash-Napirisha, excavated at Susa in 1903 and displayed in the Louvre.

Statue of Padiiset

The Statue of Padiiset, also called Padiiset's Statue, is a reused Egyptian statuette in the Walters Art Museum, re-inscribed around 900–850 BCE for Pa-di-iset, an envoy to Canaan.

Statue of Peace (평화의소녀상)

Statue of Peace (평화의 소녀상, Sonyeosang), bronze comfort women memorial by Kim Eun-sung and Kim Seo-kyung, erected December 14, 2011 before the Japanese Embassy in Seoul at the 1,000th Wednesday Demonstration; replicated worldwide amid Japanese removal demands.

Statue of Seneb

The Statue of Seneb is a painted limestone Old Kingdom sculpture of the dwarf official Seneb with his wife and children, found at Giza and kept in Cairo.

Statue of Sobekneferu

The Statue of Sobekneferu (Neferusobek) comprises surviving fragments depicting Sobekneferu, the female king who closed Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty around 1800 BC, including a headless Louvre statue and a Berlin bust destroyed in World War II.

Statue of Union

The Statue of Union is a 90-foot bronze statue of the Hindu deity Hanuman at the Sri Ashtalakshmi Temple in Sugar Land, Texas, unveiled in 2024.

Statue of Unity

The Statue of Unity at Ekta Nagar (Kevadia), Gujarat, is the world's tallest statue at 182 m, depicting Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel; designed by Ram V. Sutar, built by Larsen & Toubro with Arup, inaugurated 31 October 2018.

Statue of Xochipilli

The Statue of Xochipilli is a Mexica stone sculpture of the god of flowers, seated cross-legged on a carved throne, held in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.

Statue of Zeus at Olympia

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was a colossal gold and ivory cult statue by Phidias, made around 435 BCE and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Statues (game)

Statues, also known as Red Light, Green Light, is a children's game where players race to tag a curator who must not see them move.

Statues of Harmodios and Aristogeiton

Statues of Harmodios and Aristogeiton, the Tyrannicides: bronze groups by Antenor (510 BC) and Kritios and Nesiotes (477/6 BC) in the Athenian Agora, known from Roman marble copies like the Naples group.

Statuette of Neferefre

The statuette of Neferefre is a seated limestone statue of the Fifth Dynasty king Raneferef, found broken in his mortuary temple at Abusir and now in Cairo.

Statuette of the lady Tiye

The statuette of the lady Tiye is a painted wooden Egyptian statuette of a non-royal woman, made in Dynasty 18 and held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Statulae

Statulae (Statule), Roman mansio on the Via Valeria in Paeligni territory, Abruzzo, Italy; attested on the Tabula Peutingeriana 7 miles from Corfinium, identified at La Statura near Goriano Sicoli, with a 1903 milestone of Magnentius at 90 miles from Rome.

Status and open problems of asymptotic safety

The status of asymptotic safety is mixed: the Reuter fixed point is considered established in Euclidean gravity, but truncation errors, background dependence, ghosts, and Wick rotation remain unresolved objections.

Status Aparte

Status aparte is the constitutional status under which Aruba became a separate country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 1 January 1986, seceding from the Netherlands Antilles.

Status Control Edicts

The Status Control Edicts (身分統制令, mibun tōsei rei) were laws issued by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1591 and 1592 that prohibited movement between the statuses of warrior, farmer, and townspeople.

Status epilepticus

Status epilepticus (SE), a prolonged or recurrent seizure emergency defined by ILAE 2015 (5 minutes for tonic-clonic seizures), treated with benzodiazepines then levetiracetam, fosphenytoin, or valproate, with about 20% mortality.

Status Law

The Status Law is a Hungarian statute of 2001 granting benefits to ethnic Hungarians living in six neighboring states, which provoked disputes with Slovakia and Romania.

Status migrainosus

Status migrainosus: a debilitating migraine attack lasting more than 72 hours, an ICHD-3 complication of migraine (code 1.4.1), also called intractable migraine, treated with parenteral drugs in emergency settings.

Status of forces agreement

A status of forces agreement (SOFA) is a treaty setting the legal status of foreign troops on a host state's territory, covering jurisdiction, taxation, and claims.