Egyptian Statues: Shire Egyptology 26

For over three thousand years, ancient Egyptian sculptors created statues of deities, kings and elite officials and their families. These were set up mainly in temples or tombs and played a vital role in temple anf funerary ritual, being places where non-physical entities - deities, the royal ka-spirit and the ka-spirits of the dead - could manifest themselves in this world. The final chapter of the book considers what was constant and what changed over time and looks at the influence that Egyptian statues had on the origins of monumental Greek sculpture. About the author: Dr Gay Robins studied Egyptology at the University of Durham as an undergraduate and then went to Oxford to undertake research on queens of the Eighteenth Dynasty. She is now professor of Ancient Egyptian Art in the Art History Department at Emory University, Atlanta, and Faculty Consultant for Ancient Egyptian Art in the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory.Robins, Gay is the author of 'Egyptian Statues: Shire Egyptology 26' with ISBN 9780747805205 and ISBN 0747805202.