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Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids

Allen, James P., Susan Allen, Julie Anderson, Dieter Arnold, Dorothea Arnold, Nadine Cherpion, Élisabeth David, Nicolas Grimal, Krzysztof Grzymski, Zahi Hawass, Marsha Hill, Peter Jánosi, Sophie Labée-Toutée, Audran Labrousse, Jean-Philippe Lauer, Jean Leclant, Peter Der Manuelian, N. B. Millet, Adela Oppenheim, Diana Craig Patch, Elena Pischikova, Patricia Rigault, Catharine H. Roehrig, Dietrich Wildung, and Christiane Ziegler (1999)

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Table of contents

Lenders to the Exhibition

Directors' Foreword
Françoise Cachin, Philippe de Montebello, Lindsay Sharp

Acknowledgments
Dorothea Arnold, Krzystof Grzymski, Christiane Ziegler

Contributors to the Catalogue and Key to the Authors of the Entries

Maps

Notes to the Reader

Chronology

A Note on Egyptian Chronology
Élisabeth David

Dynastic and Regnal Dates
James P. Allen

Introduction
Dorothea Arnold, Christiane Ziegler

Introductory Essays

A Brief History of the Old Kingdom
Jean Leclant

The Step Pyramid Precinct of King Djoser
Jean-Philippe Lauer

Pyramids and Their Temples
Audran Labrousse

The Tombs of Officials: Houses of Eternity
Peter Jánosi

Old Kingdom Statues in their Architectural Setting
Dieter Arnold

Royal Statuary
Krzysztof Grzymski

Nonroyal Statuary
Christiane Ziegler

Reserve Heads: An Enigma of Old Kingdom Sculpture
Catharine H. Roehrig

Royal Reliefs
Dorothea Arnold

The Human Image in Old Kingdom Nonroyal Reliefs
Nadine Cherpion

Furniture of the Old Kingdom
Julie Anderson

Stone Vessels: Luxury Items with Manifold Implications
Dorothea Arnold and Elena Pischikova

Excavating the Old Kingdom: From Khafres Valley Temple to the Governors City at Balat
Nicolas Grimal

Excavating the Old Kingdom: the Giza Necropolis and Other Mastaba Fields
Peter Der Manuelian

Excavating the Old Kingdom: The Egyptian Archaeologists
Zahi Hawass

Catalogue

Third Dynasty
Fourth Dynasty
Fifth Dynasty
Sixth Dynasty

Glossary

Bibliography

Indexes

Photograph Credits

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James P. Allen

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Nadine Cherpion

Elisabeth David

Peter Der Manuelian

Nicolas-Christophe Grimal

Krzysztof A. Grzymski

Zahi A. Hawass

Marsha Hill

Peter Jánosi

Sophie Labbé-Toutée

A. Labrousse

Jean Philippe Lauer

Jean Leclant

N. B. Millet

Adela Oppenheim

Diana Craig Patch

Elena Pischikova

Patricia Rigault

Catharine H. Roehrig

Dietrich Wildung

Christiane Ziegler

Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids

The astonishing sculpture, reliefs, paintings, and works of decorative art on view were created in Egypt during the third millennium B.C.E., the period of the Old Kingdom, when the famous pyramids at Giza were built. Youthful vigor, confidence, and joy in life are reflected in the distinctly lifelike images of the pyramid builders, whose sculptors and craftsmen defined once and for all the essence of Egyptian art. This major international loan exhibition displays some 250 works from more than thirty museums in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States. Included are portraits of kings and queens, a statue of the architect of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, several portraitlike heads (the so-called reserve heads), delicate relief scenes, elegant luxury vessels, and furniture, together with a great variety of sculptures depicting high officials and their families.