Statues in Context: Production, Meaning and (Re)Uses (British Museum Publications on Egypt and Sudan)

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Moving beyond typological and stylistic discourses on Egyptian statuary, the papers gathered here seek to explore the architectural, cultic and production contexts of statuary, to shed light on religious or cultural practices, and the political or economic agenda behind the display or hiding of these sculptures. How and why were they originally displayed or kept invisible, transported, transformed or buried? New discoveries, the re-contextualisation of earlier excavated statues as well as recent scientific analyses provide significant new insights into the production, meaning and (re-)uses of statues. This collection of papers encompasses the full typological and chronological range - from the Old Kingdom to Late Antiquity - and include statuary of all scales, from colossi to figurines. The studies cover statues mainly set up in temples, palaces, houses and tombs, and the later biographies of statues' assemblages. TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 2016 COLLOQUIUM PROGRAMME PREFACE WHEN STATUES SPEAK ABOUT THEMSELVES1 A PERFECT ‘LIKENESS’? VIEWING LATE PERIOD ARCHAISING SCULPTURE IN CONTEXT SMALL DIVINE STATUETTES: OUTFITTING RELIGION1 ORIGINS OF METALS FOR COUNTLESS BRONZES EVIDENCE SUGGESTING ANOTHER BOSTON DYAD OF MENKAURA AND A QUEEN IN TEMPLE AND HOME: STATUARY IN THE TOWN OF AMARA WEST, UPPER NUBIA EVIDENCE FROM AMARNA RELIEFS CONCERNING ROYAL STATUES AND THEIR CONTEXTS: HOW ACCURATE WERE THE RELIEFS? RECONSTRUCTING THE STATUARY OF THE COURTYARD OF THE TEMPLE OF KHNUM ON ELEPHANTINE EGYPTIAN AND CYPRIOT STONE STATUETTES IN CONTEXT AT LATE PERIOD NAUKRATIS A CLASSIFICATION OF ‘SACRED’ CACHES IN ANCIENT EGYPT THOUSANDS OF OSIRIS: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS OF THE BRONZES FOUND IN THE TEMPLE OF ‘AYN MANAWÎR AND AT THE SERAPEUM OF MEMPH LOOKING FOR CONTEXTS: RECENT WORK ON THE KARNAK CACHETTE PROJECT TAHARQO AND HIS DESCENDANTS: A STATUE CACHE UPSTREAM OF THE FIFTH NILE CATARACT RITUAL METAL STATUARY IN ANCIENT EGYPT: ‘A LONG LIFE AND A GREAT AND GOOD OLD AGE’ STATUES IN LATE ANTIQUE EGYPT: FROM PRODUCTION AND DISPLAY TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD KILLING OR ‘DE-ACTIVATING’ EGYPTIAN STATUES: WHO MUTILATED THEM, WHEN, AND WHY?