Two-volume set in slipcase Over more than a century and a quarter of excavations the royal and administrative buildings in the city of Amarna have yielded the remains of many hundreds of statues that had been part of Akhenaten’s visionary plan. But fragmentation and dispersal have up until now made the results almost invisible. Only a relatively small number of the original statues have been widely known, even to experts. The present publication brings together all these traces of the city’s past to reveal the abundance, beauty, variety, and novelty of the statuary and to begin the process of reintegrating it in considerations of the temples and palaces of the city.
The work is presented in two parts. The first volume presents extensive observations about the creation of the statuary, comprising chapters dealing with the range of materials and the methods of working them, a detailed explication of the novel creation of composite statuary, and an overview of the workshop buildings that have been identified so far at Amarna.
In the second volume, the excavated fragments themselves, most of them previously unpublished, are catalogued in a series of chapters devoted to individual royal buildings. The original statues are envisioned and analysed for their contexts, resulting in new information about these buildings, the intentions and concerns behind them, and the evolution in those intentions.
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2-volume set in slipcase. Excavations at the Ancient Egyptian city of Amarna have yielded the remains of many hundreds of statues that were part of Akhenaten’s visionary plan. This work catalogues all the statuary, and in a separate volume begins to reintegrate it into the history of the city’s temples and palaces.
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1. Mitigating Erasure: Our Search for Royal Statues from Amarna
2. Working Methods: Stone, Quarrying, Tools, and the Sculpting Processes
3. Composite statuary
4: The Sculptors’ Workshop District and the Royal Workshops
5. The Great Aten Temple
6. The Small Aten Temple
7.The Great Palace
8. Peripheral and Support Buildings
9. Fragments without Precise Provenance at the Site
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780856982545
Publisert
2024-05-17
Utgiver
Vendor
Egypt Exploration Society
Vekt
3880 gr
Høyde
297 mm
Bredde
210 mm
Dybde
63 mm
Aldersnivå
P, UP, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
860
Biographical note
Kristin Thompson has been a member of Barry Kemp’s expedition at Amarna since 2001. Her work involved joining fragments found during previous excavations and reassembling substantial sections of a major statue, tracing many items to the workshop or building where they originated. Marsha Hill is Curator Emerita in the Department of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, after a career there of over forty years. She specialises in sculpture and its place in Egyptian culture, and has been a regular member of Barry Kemp’s Amarna Project team since 2012 when work began on the Great Aten Temple.