| #2480943 in Books | Shire | 2008-03-04 | 2008-03-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x.23 x5.90l,.34 | File type: PDF | 64 pages | ||About the Author|Dr Gay Robins studied Egyptology at the University of Durham as an undergraduate and then went to Oxford to undertake research on queens of the Eighteenth Dynasty, obtaining a DPhil in 1981. From 1979 to 1983 she was the Lady Wallis Budge Resear
For over three thousand years, ancient Egyptian sculptors created statues of deities, kings and lite officials and their families. These were set up mainly in temples or tombs and played a vital role in temple and funerary ritual, being places where non-physical entities - deities, the royal ka-spirit and the ka-spirits of the dead - could manifest themselves in this world. This book examines the materials and techniques employed by sculptors and various statue types and...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Egyptian Statues (Shire Egyptology) | Gay Robins. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.