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Statues --- Catalogs. --- Statuary --- Monuments --- Sculpture --- Catalogs --- Egypt --- Antiquities. --- History

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National Statuary Hall (United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.) --- Statues

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Cette étude consiste en l'identification de la quintessence du traitement réalisé pour la vénération des dieux via leurs statues de culte. Pour ce faire, furent prises en compte les différentes sources à notre disposition : un corpus limité de statues divines découvertes au Proche-Orient, ainsi que la documentation cunéiforme traitant directement de notre thématique et celle ne prodiguant que quelques éclairages ponctuels. Ce travail est subdivisé en trois chapitres : une contextualisation accompagnée d'un développement de la valeur de la statuaire dans le contexte à l'étude, un examen de la matérialité des œuvres, des prémices de la création aux choix qui mènent à la réalisation d'une ronde-bosse et une analyse de ce qui rend la représentation vivante à proprement parler c'est-à-dire les rituels réalisés une fois la fabrication strictement matérielle achevée.

Mesopotamian statuary --- Cult statuary --- Statuaire mésopotamienne --- Statuaire de culte --- Arts & sciences humaines > Art & histoire de l'art --- Arts & sciences humaines > Archéologie

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Moving beyond typological and stylistic discourses on Egyptian statuary, the papers gathered here seek to explore the architectural, cultic and production contexts of statuary, to shed light on religious or cultural practices, and the political or economic agenda behind the display or hiding of these sculptures. How and why were they originally displayed or kept invisible, transported, transformed or buried ? New discoveries, the re-contextualisation of earlier excavated statues as well as recent scientific analyses provide significant new insights into the production, meaning and (re-)uses of statues. This collection of papers encompasses the full typological and chronological range - from the Old Kingdom to Late Antiquity - and include statuary of all scales, from colossi to figurines. The studies cover statues mainly set up in temples, palaces, houses and tombs, and the later biographies of statues' assemblages

Statues --- Statuary --- Monuments --- Sculpture --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Sculpture, Egyptian --- Conservation and restoration

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Why do ancient Egyptian statues so often have their noses, hands, or genitals broken? Although the Late Antiquity period appears to have been one of the major moments of large-scale vandalism against pagan monuments, various contexts bear witness to several phases of reuse, modification, or mutilation of statues throughout and after the pharaonic period. Reasons for this range from a desire to erase the memory of specific rulers or individuals for ideological reasons to personal vengeance, war, tomb plundering, and the avoidance of a curse; or simply the reuse of material for construction or the need to ritually “deactivate” and bury old statues, without the added motive of explicit hostility toward the subject in question. Drawing on the latest scholarship and over 100 carefully selected illustrations, Ancient Egyptian Statues proceeds from a general discussion of the production and meaning of sculptures, and the mechanisms of their destruction, to review the role of ancient statuary in Egyptian history and belief. It then moves on to explore the various means of damage and their significance, and the role of restoration and reuse.

Sculpture, Egyptian --- Statues --- Iconoclasm --- History --- Egypt --- Antiquities. --- Idols and images --- Statuary --- Monuments --- Sculpture --- Egyptian sculpture --- Worship