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About 240 wooden statues survive from the Old Kingdom (c. 2575 - 2134 BC). The statues that can be dated by external criteria have been gathered together into a chronological catalogue and their features studied to establish dating criteria. The criteria are then applied to the remaining statues, enabling many of them to be assigned dates within individual reigns of the Old Kingdom.

Sculpture, Ancient --- Wood sculpture, Egyptian

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"Le département des bois du Musée copte est riche des milliers de pièces versées par le patriarcat d'Alexandrie, données par des familles ou découvertes lors de fouilles archéologiques. Le présent catalogue offre une première sélection de quatre-vingt-six objets de provenances et d'époques diverses. Il regroupe aussi bien des éléments architecturaux de sites monastiques tels que ceux d'Apa Apollô à Baouît ou d'Apa Jérémie à Saqqara, du mobilier liturgique provenant des églises du Vieux-Caire (autel, ciboire, iconostase), que des objets de la vie quotidienne (peignes, fusaïoles), et couvre une vaste période chronologique allant de l'époque byzantine à l'époque ottomane. Cette collection permet d'entrevoir la vivacité et la diversité de l'artisanat populaire tout en illustrant les goûts d'une élite civile urbaine et cosmopolite. Les charpentiers, menuisiers et sculpteurs collaborent indépendamment de leur confession religieuse et mêlent volontiers les répertoires iconographiques païen, chrétien et musulman. Matériau à la croisée des cultures, le bois travaillé est révélateur des nombreux échanges économiques et sociaux qui ont jalonné l'histoire de l'Égypte et de la communauté chrétienne."--Publisher's website. "The Department of Woods at the Coptic Museum counts thousands of pieces donated by the Patriarchate of Alexandria, gracefully offered by families or discovered during archaeological excavations. The present catalogue furnishes a primary selection of eighty-six objects from various origins and periods. It includes architectural elements from monastic sites, such as those from Apa Apollo at Bawit or Apa Jeremiah at Saqqara, liturgical furniture from the churches of Old Cairo (altar, ciborium, iconostasis), as well as everyday objects (combs, spindle whorls) covering a vast chronological period, from the Byzantine Empire to the Ottoman Empire. This collection gives a glimpse of the liveliness and diversity of popular crafts while illustrating the tastes of urban and cosmopolitan civilian elite. Carpenters and sculptors collaborated regardless of their religion and readily mixed Pagan, Christian and Muslim iconographic repertoires. Woodwork, a material at the crossroads of cultures, is indicative of the various economic and social exchanges that punctuated Egyptian history and its Christian community."--Publisher's website.

Sculpture copte --- Objets en bois --- Coptic art --- Christian antiquities --- Wood sculpture, Egyptian --- Coptic wood-carving --- Christian antiquities. --- Coptic art. --- Coptic wood-carving. --- Wood sculpture, Egyptian. --- Histoire --- Matḥaf al-Qibṭī (Cairo, Egypt) --- Musée copte --- Egypt --- Histoire. --- Matḥaf al-Qibṭī (Cairo, Egypt) --- Musée copte