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Egyptian Art: Studies

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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.

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