Small format work. Preparatory drawing for the work on canvas ‘Sojourners’ created by Alberto Ballocca.

Tyrant Deterctor is inspired by the statuary anatomy of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II.

Among many monuments erected by Pharaoh Ramses II, the main Temple of Abu Simbel is generally considered the most impressive and beautiful.

On the façade, 33 meters high and 38 meters wide, the four statues of Ramses II stand out, each of which is 20 meters high, in each the pharaoh wears the pschent or the crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt, the headdress called nemes which comes down from on his shoulders and has the cobra on his forehead.

On the sides of the colossal statues there are other smaller ones, the mother Tuia and his wife Nefertari, while between the legs there are the statues of some of her numerous children (recognizable by the childish braid on the side of the head) such as Amonherkhepshef, Ramses B, Bintanath and Nebettaui. Above the statues, on the pediment of the temple there are 14 statues of baboons who, looking towards the east, wait every day for the birth of the sun to worship it.

Originally there were 22 statues of baboons, as many as the provinces of Upper Egypt, even if according to another hypothesis there were 24 statues, one for each hour of the day.