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Egyptian Art in The Age of The Pyramids - USA The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1999 - xxiii, 536 illustrations (some color) 31 cm

Catalogue of an exhibition to be held at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, Apr. 6-July 12, 1999, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 16, 1999-Jan. 9, 2000, and the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Feb. 13-May 22, 2000

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 Khafre's Valley temple to the governor's 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

ISBN: 0870999060 9780870999062 0870999079 9780870999079 0810965437 9780810965430

Patent No.: 1999

Subjects--Uniform Titles: English

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Art, Egyptian
Art, Ancient
Architecture
Art, Egyptian
Art, Ancient
Architecture
General
Ancient Egypt
Archaeology

Dewey Class. No.: 709/.32/0747471