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Egyptian Art: Studies

Chapter 3: ILLUSTRATIONS
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The volume gathers essays written over decades that examine ancient Egyptian sculpture, small statuary, jewelry, and ritual objects, combining on-site descriptions of recent discoveries with museum studies. It surveys regional schools and workshops, analyzes portrait heads, scribe figures, royal colossi, votive animals, canopic equipment, and metalwork, and discusses technique, materials, and the funerary functions that shaped form and style. Illustrated case studies follow specific finds and groups to show shifts in production, local conventions, and the artist’s aims to preserve identity for an afterlife, offering both detailed object studies and broader interpretive principles for appreciating ancient Egyptian artistic practices.

ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE
THE MYCERINUS OF MÎT-RAHINEH 38
MYCERINUS (REISNER HEAD) 38
ALABASTER STATUE OF MYCERINUS 40
MYCERINUS, HATHOR, AND THE NOME OXYRRHINCHUS 42
MYCERINUS, HATHOR, AND THE NOME CYNOPOLITE 42
MYCERINUS AND HIS WIFE 44
MYCERINUS, HATHOR, AND THE NOME OF THE SISTRUM 46
MYCERINUS AND HIS WIFE (DETAIL) 46
MYCERINUS AND HIS WIFE (DETAIL) 48
SCRIBE’S HEAD 50
SKHEMKA WITH HIS WIFE AND SON 56
CROUCHING SCRIBE 60
THE NEW SCRIBE OF THE GIZEH MUSEUM 66
STATUE OF RÂNOFIR 72
KNEELING SCRIBE 74
PEHOURNOWRI 80
THE DWARF KHNOUMHOTPOU 86
THE WORKS AT KARNAK IN JANUARY, 1906 92
MONTOUHOTPOU V 94
HEAD OF A COLOSSUS OF SANOUOSRÎT 94
SANOUOSRÎT AND THE GOD PHTAH 94
BUST OF THOUTMÔSIS III 96
ISIS, MOTHER OF THOUTMÔSIS III 96
SANMAOUT AND THE PRINCESS NAFÊROURIYA 98
STATUETTE IN PETRIFIED WOOD 100
THEBAN KHONSOU 100
STATUE OF TOUTÂNOUKHAMANOU 100
THE SO-CALLED TAIA 100
RAMSES II 100
RAMSES IV LEADING A LIBYAN CAPTIVE 100
THE PRIEST WITH THE MONKEY 102
OSORKON II OFFERING A BOAT TO THE GOD AMON 104
QUEEN ANKHNASNOFIRIABRÊ 104
MANTIMEHÊ 104
NSIPHTAH, SON OF MANTIMEHÊ 104
HEAD (SAÏTE PERIOD) 104
THE COW OF DEÎR-EL-BAHARÎ IN HER CHAPEL 104
AMENÔTHES II AND THE COW HATHOR 106
AMENÔTHES II AND THE COW HATHOR 106
THE COW HATHOR 108
AN UNKNOWN FIGURE AND THE COW HATHOR 112
PETESOMTOUS AND THE COW HATHOR 114
PSAMMETICHUS AND THE COW HATHOR 116
PSAMMETICHUS AND THE COW HATHOR 118
AMENÔPHIS IV 120
KING KHOUNIATONOU 126
KING KHOUNIATONOU 126
KING KHOUNIATONOU 128
KING KHOUNIATONOU 130
KING KHOUNIATONOU 130
QUEEN TÎYI (FULL FACE) 130
QUEEN TÎYI (PROFILE) 130
PRINCESS OF THE FAMILY OF TÎYI (PROFILE) 132
PRINCESS OF THE FAMILY OF TÎYI (FULL FACE) 132
KING KHOUNIATONOU 132
KING KHOUNIATONOU 134
HEAD OF THE PHARAOH HARMHABI 136
THE HALF-BURIED COLOSSUS OF RAMSES II 140
THE COLOSSUS OF RAMSES II EMERGING FROM THE EARTH 140
EGYPTIAN JEWELLERY OF THE XIXTH DYNASTY 146
GOLD PECTORAL INLAID WITH ENAMEL 146
PECTORAL OF RAMSES II 148
PECTORAL IN SHAPE OF A HAWK WITH A RAM’S HEAD 148
SILVER BRACELETS AND EARRINGS 156
GOLD EARRING FROM THE TREASURE OF ZAGAZIG 156
ONE OF RAMSES II’S BRACELETS (OPEN) 158
ONE OF RAMSES II’s BRACELETS (CLOSED) 158
GOLD CUP OF QUEEN TAOUASRÎT 160
SMALLER OF THE TWO GOLD VASES (FRONT VIEW) 160
SMALLER OF THE TWO GOLD VASES (BACK VIEW) 162
MASS OF SILVER VASES SOLDERED TOGETHER BY OXIDE 162
LARGER OF THE TWO GOLD VASES (FRONT VIEW) 164
LARGER OF THE TWO GOLD VASES (BACK VIEW) 164
THE VASE WITH THE KID 164
ONE OF THE SILVER PATERÆ OF ZAGAZIG (SIDE VIEW) 166
SILVER STRAINER 166
THE BOTTOM OF ONE OF THE ZAGAZIG SILVER PATERÆ 168
STATUETTES IN WOOD 172
THE MOND STATUETTE (FRONT VIEW) 178
THE MOND STATUETTE (PROFILE) 180
THE LADY TOUÎ, STATUETTE IN WOOD 184
STATUETTE IN WOOD 186
STATUETTE IN WOOD 186
PERFUME LADLE 190
PERFUME LADLE 190
PERFUME LADLE 192
PERFUME LADLE 192
PERFUME LADLE 194
GREEN BASALT STATUETTES OF THE SAÏTE PERIOD 196
NECKLACE AMULET 202
VULTURE AMULET 202
GOLD PALM-TREE 202
BOAT OF SOKARIS 202
RAM’S HEAD 202
GOLD HAWK 202
HAWK WITH HUMAN HEAD 202
HAWK WITH RAM’S HEAD 202
VULTURE 202
ISIS WITH THE CHILD 202
CROUCHING NEÎTH 202
MONKEYS WORSHIPPING THE EMBLEM OF OSIRIS 204
VULTURE WITH EXTENDED WINGS 204
HAWK WITH EXTENDED WINGS 204
THE SOUL (FRONT VIEW) 204
THE SOUL (BACK VIEW) 204
BRONZE CAT OF THE SAÏTE PERIOD 208
BRONZE CAT 214