Ancient Egyptian Statues: Their Many Lives and Deaths Connor Simon
Ancient Egyptian Statues: Their Many Lives and Deaths Connor Simon A fascinating, richly illustrated study of the role and significance of ancient statues in Egyptian history and beliefWhy do ancient…
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Ancient Egyptian Statues: Their Many Lives and Deaths Connor Simon
A fascinating, richly illustrated study of the role and significance of ancient statues in Egyptian history and beliefWhy do ancient Egyptian statues so often have their noses, hands, or genitals broken? Reasons for this range from a desire to erase the memory of specific rulers or individuals for ideological reasons to personal vengeance, war, tomb plundering, and the avoidance of a curse; or simply the reuse of material for construction or the need to ritually "deactivate" and bury old statues, without the added motive of explicit hostility toward the subject in question.Drawing on the latest Although the Late Antiquity period appears to have been one of the major moments of large-scale vandalism against pagan monuments, various contexts bear witness to several phases of reuse, modification, or mutilation of statues throughout and after the pharaonic period.