Roman collecting and the biographies of Egyptian Late Period statues

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ID3919607
AutoresHenry P Colburn (0000-0003-4887-9889, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume48
Fascículo2
Páginas226-238
Data de publicação2016-03-14
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.2016.1225514
OpenAlexW2547336150
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas35

Studies of Egyptian Late Period statuary often assume that the extant corpus is a representative sample of the artistic output of the Twenty-Sixth to Thirty-First Dynasties (c. 664–332 BCE). This assumption ignores the various human processes that affect the survival of statues after their initial dedication. In particular, the Roman practice of collecting Egyptian naophorous statues for reuse in cult spaces of Egyptian gods in Italy has skewed the chronological distribution of the corpus in favour of statues of Twenty-Sixth Dynasty date. This in turn informs perceptions of the Twenty-Seventh Dynasty, the period of Achaemenid rule in Egypt, as being a time of artistic poverty. This paper examines the biographies of Egyptian statues in order to better distinguish between the products of ancient agency and modern scholarly constructs

Agency (philosophy · Ancient history · Art · Cult · Extant taxon · Literature · Order (exchange · Period (music · Sixth century · Social science · Sociology · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History