Comment on the phrase "antique land" in Shelley's "Ozymandias?"

I would like to add that the phrase "antique land" sounds unsual. It's odd to hear the adjective "antique" applied to the noun "land"; a more natural combination (for me) would be "ancient land" or "old land." Of course, Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" is dated 1818, so it's possible that the word combination would have passed as natural for his readers.

A quick review of the meanings of the adjective "antique" in the Oxford English Dictionary shows that the range of meanings discussed by pohnpei397 were all well in use by the time the poem was published. There's one possibly important meaning that this previous poster doesn't discuss, and that's the understanding of "antique" to mean "Of, belonging to, or after the manner of the ancients (of Greece and Rome)." If Ozymandias is indeed another name for Ramses II, which some anthologies claim, then the speaker in Shelley's poem may indeed come from (or, at least, have travelled in) Egypt, and the ruins of the statue, much like the ruins from ancient Greece, become a subject worthy of attention in the work of a Romantic poet.