Late antique Egyptian funerary sculpture : images for this world and the next

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Label

Late antique Egyptian funerary sculpture : images for this world and the next

Title remainder

images for this world and the next

Statement of responsibility

Thelma K. Thomas

Creator

• Thomas, Thelma K

Subject

• Egypt -- Religion -- 332 B.C.-640 A.D
• Sculpture, Egyptian -- Themes, motives
• Tombs -- Egypt

Language

eng

Summary

• "Focusing on funerary sculpture, one of the best-known categories of late antique Egyptian art, Thelma K. Thomas demonstrates how skilled artisans created a varied repertory of works for a diverse body of commissioners. Some of these sculptures were made for grand monumental tombs and commissioned by an urban, land-owning class with strong Hellenistic roots; others were made for smaller and less imposing monuments and commissioned by distinctly different clienteles from monasteries and towns, as well as by different socio-economic classes within the cities."
• "Thomas balances keen analysis of the surviving sculptures with close attention to primary written sources and archaeological evidence. The approach yields original interpretations of regional implications for attribution groups, and provocatively atmospheric reconstructions of the works as they would have appeared in their original settings."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

NB75

LC item number

.T56 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography