Royal Bronze Statuary from Ancient Egypt: With Special Attention to the Kneeling PoseBRILL, 2004 - 367 pagina's Surprisingly enough, the bronze statuary from ancient Egypt has until now withstood all attempts at a meaningful stylistic and chronogical investigation. The author, having studied a subgroup of three hundred bronze kings, offers a range of insights into the complex of influences that bronzes represent, and the ritual role of the statuary. With a full catalogue of the three hundred bronze kings studied and an appendix on the history of the kneeling pose in Egyptian statuary. The book is illustrated with more than eighty plates. |
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Third Intermediate Period | 23 |
The Kushite Period | 51 |
The Late and Ptolemaic Periods with a brief note on the Roman Period | 75 |
The Meaning and Role of Royal Bronze Statuary | 121 |
Conclusions | 143 |
The History of the Royal Kneeling Pose with Special | 241 |
Provenance Index | 257 |
Photograph credits | 283 |
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Ägyptisches Amasis Amenemhat Amenemhat III Amun arms forward base belt Bibliography blue crown body Bothmer Brief description broad collar bronze kings bronze statuary brows Cairo cap crown cartouche cult dated depicted discussed Dynasty 25 Egypt Egyptian Museum elbows example eyes face Fazzini figure frontlet hands head holding nw pots images inlaid inscription Kawa kilt kneeling king kneeling pose knees Kushite London Louvre Material notes Metropolitan Museum Middle Kingdom modeling mouth Museum of Art Necho Necho II Nectanebo Nectanebo II nemes nose Observations Osorkon Osorkon II parallel palms Paris Pedubaste piece plate possible Provenance/History Psamtik Psamtik II Ptolemaic Period Ramesses Ramesses II Ramesside relief Representation round royal bronzes Russmann Saite sale catalog Saqqara Sculpture Sheshonq shoulders slightly Sotheby's sphinx statue stone statuary streamer striding king stylistic Taharqo tangs temple Text reference Third Intermediate Period Thutmose Thutmose III torso uraeus