Egyptian

Roehrig, Catharine H.

doi:10.2307/3258786

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“…There are also gaming pieces of the same shape from the joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III (Fig. 8), dating slightly earlier than the tomb of Rekhmire (Roehrig 2005, 188). Originally a head of a leopard was transformed into the hieroglyphic sign.…”

Section: Creativitymentioning

confidence: 98%

Memories into Images: Aegean and Aegean-like Objects in New Kingdom Egyptian Theban Tombs

Matić

2019

CAJ

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Diplomatic relations between the 18th-dynasty Egyptian court and the polities of the Aegean Bronze Age are gaining increasing scholarly attention. The work conducted so far on chronological synchronization has established a relatively firm base for further discussions on social relations. The role of the prestige objects arriving from the Aegean to Egypt has not received the same attention. This is partly because our knowledge of these objects is restricted to Egyptian visual representations in tombs of the officials and not the imported objects per se. This paper will discuss the transformative capacities of Egyptian decorum in regards to the foreign prestige objects of the Aegean provenance arriving in the Egyptian 18th-dynasty court. We first have to understand the iconographical phenomena of transference, hybridization and creativity in Egyptian visual culture, and only then may we attempt to read any historical reality behind them. These transformative representational processes are crucial for the understanding of the reception and the memory of the Aegean objects.

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Section: Creativitymentioning

confidence: 98%