Art History Archive
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Little women: gender and hierarchic proportion in Old Kingdom mastaba chapels
Posted on March 19, 2013 | No CommentsIn an initial attempt to investigate what variations in comparative scale meant to the ancient Egyptians who created and viewed Egyptian art, I have considered the limited case of the wife represented with her husband in reliefs and paintings in his tomb chapel. -
A question of authenticity and date: Roman copies and Ptolemaic originals
Posted on March 8, 2013 | No CommentsEgyptian-style sculptures from the Roman period are often dismissed as modern forgeries on account of their unusual proportions and stylised features. This article considers the Imperial Roman fashion of using Egyptian and Egyptianising sculptural representations concentrating on three statues of questionable authenticity. -
Tomb and social status: The textual evidence
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No CommentsIn archaeological theoretical literature it has been stressed that tombs might rather show the status of the living persons who organized the burial than the status of the buried person. This is of course an important argument but in Ancient Egypt we have the anthropologically quite exceptional situation that the tomb-owner already began the construction of his tomb and the organisation of his burial equipment when he was still alive. -
Diadems: a girl
Posted on February 15, 2013 | No CommentsThe relationship between women and jewellery is a very intriguing one, not only in modern, but also in ancient times. -
Hierarchy of Women within Elite Families. Iconographic Data from the Old Kingdom
Posted on February 13, 2013 | No CommentsWhen the hierarchy of women is concerned, the range of data is limited, since women were virtually excluded from the bureaucracy, and the number of their own tombs is relatively low. In spite of this, over recent decades the studies focusing on women have been steadily increasing our knowledge on the position and roles of women in the Egyptian society of the Old Kingdom -
The Goddess Hathor and the women of ancient Egypt
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsThis thesis aims to investigate the women of ancient Egypt with regards to their relationship with the goddess Hathor. Hathor is one of the most popular Egyptian deities, and arguably (until she was assimilated by Isis during later Egyptian history) the most popular deity among the women of Egypt. -
Egypt
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsThe following thesis developed out of a desire to understand the process behind identity formation in the ancient world. -
Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel: Insights and Interpretations
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsChristopher Lightfoot, Curator in the Department of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, offers insights on the Lod Mosaic. -
Secrets of the Desert
Posted on January 17, 2013 | No CommentsThe origins of pharaonic civilisation have always been shrouded in mystery. What caused dynastic culture to burst forth in the Nile valley within such a relatively short period of time? -
What Did the Bust of Ankh-haf Originally Look Like?
Posted on January 17, 2013 | No CommentsThe bust of Ankh-haf is a life-size sculpted portrait in limestone, painted in a red ochre wash, representing a mature man with an intelligent gaze, aging features, bags under the eyes, and a receding hairline.
