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Displaying Piety to God and Audience
With the New Kingdom came new types of statuary. While moral values found their way into writing on artefacts of the earlier Middle...
Oct 10, 20222 min read


Deir el-Medina's Temple Area as Provenance of Statues
North-East of the village, a large, very fortress-like mudbrick enclosure wall (the last built of this type in Egypt) protects a...
Sep 30, 20221 min read


A Statue Designed for a Chair
The famous statue of Kha is particularly interesting as a rare complete example of Deir el-Medina's private wooden statuary of Dynasty...
Sep 29, 20221 min read


The Function of Colour on Statues
It is particularly interesting to think about colours on ancient Egyptian statues. It has long been assumed that the statuary colour...
Sep 26, 20222 min read
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