Statuary from Royal Buildings at Amarna (2-volume set)
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
Product details
- ISBN 9780856982545
- Weight: 3880g
- Dimensions: 210 x 297mm
- Publication Date: 17 May 2024
- Publisher: Egypt Exploration Society
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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In the second volume, the excavated fragments themselves, most of them previously unpublished, are catalogued in a series of chapters devoted to individual royal buildings.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.
EES Research Reports 120
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.
