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The Priest, the Prince and the Pasha - The Life and Afterlife of an Ancient Egyptian Sculpture (Hardcover): Lawrence M. Berman The Priest, the Prince and the Pasha - The Life and Afterlife of an Ancient Egyptian Sculpture (Hardcover)
Lawrence M. Berman
R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sometime in the early fourth century bc, an unknown Egyptian master carved an exquisite portrait in dark-green stone. The statue that included this remarkably lifelike head of a priest, who was likely a citizen of ancient Memphis, may have been damaged when the Persians conquered Egypt in 343 bc before it was ritually buried in a temple complex dedicated to the worship of the sacred Apis bull. Its adventures were not over, though: after almost two millennia, the head was excavated by August Mariette, a founding figure in French Egyptology, under a permit from the Ottoman Pasha. Returned to France as part of a collection of antiquities assembled for the inimitable Bonaparte prince known as Plon-Plon, it found a home in his faux Pompeian palace. After disappearing again, it resurfaced in the personal collection of Edward Perry Warren, a turn-of-the-twentieth-century American aesthete, who sold it to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Along the way, this compelling and mysterious sculpture, known worldwide as the Boston Green Head, has reflected the West's evolving understanding of Egyptian art - from initial assertions that it was too refined to be the product of a lesser civilization, to recognition of the sophistication of the culture that produced it.

Unearthing Ancient Nubia - Photographs from the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition (Hardcover): Lawrence... Unearthing Ancient Nubia - Photographs from the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition (Hardcover)
Lawrence M. Berman
R945 R844 Discovery Miles 8 440 Save R101 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Arts of Ancient Nubia (Paperback): Denise M. Doxey, Rita E. Freed, Lawrence M. Berman Arts of Ancient Nubia (Paperback)
Denise M. Doxey, Rita E. Freed, Lawrence M. Berman
R464 Discovery Miles 4 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Faces of Ancient Egypt - Portraits from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Hardcover): Lawrence M. Berman Faces of Ancient Egypt - Portraits from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Hardcover)
Lawrence M. Berman
R610 Discovery Miles 6 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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