

Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids
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
Met Art in Publication
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Citation
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), and Royal Ontario Museum, eds. 1999. Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams.