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Article Dans Une Revue Rivista del Museo Egizio Année : 2017

Le torse de Ramsès, le pied de Mérenptah et le nez d'Amenhotep : observations sur quelques statues royales des collections turinoises (Cat. 1381, 1382 et 3148)

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The article focuses on three fragmentary New Kingdom royal statues from Thebes, now in the collections of the Museo Egizio. Stylistic analysis allows the three pieces (a statue in the praying posture, a base with a foot, and a colossal nose, respectively Cat. 1381, 1382 and 3148) to be assigned to specific kings, despite mutilations or transformations due to reuse. Far from being only an exercise in anecdotic attribution, studying statue fragments can throw light on the whole corpus of a king or a period, as well as on the decoration programme of a site and the dialogue between a sculpture and its architectural surroundings. This article places special emphasis on the theme of reuse, also commonly called "usurpation". The implications of this practice are still largely obscure, but the intentional modification of features clearly demonstrates the importance that the ancient Egyptians assigned to style, an interest that 21st century Egyptologists should continue to pursue.
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hal-03773788 , version 1 (09-09-2022)

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Simon Connor. Le torse de Ramsès, le pied de Mérenptah et le nez d'Amenhotep : observations sur quelques statues royales des collections turinoises (Cat. 1381, 1382 et 3148). Rivista del Museo Egizio, 2017, 1 (1), ⟨10.29353/rime.2017.507⟩. ⟨hal-03773788⟩

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