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

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 6 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 8 2016 COLLOQUIUM PROGRAMME 10 PREFACE 12 WHEN STATUES SPEAK ABOUT THEMSELVES1 24 A PERFECT ‘LIKENESS’? VIEWING LATE PERIOD ARCHAISING SCULPTURE IN CONTEXT 42 SMALL DIVINE STATUETTES: OUTFITTING RELIGION1 56 ORIGINS OF METALS FOR COUNTLESS BRONZES 74 EVIDENCE SUGGESTING ANOTHER BOSTON DYAD OF MENKAURA AND A QUEEN 94 IN TEMPLE AND HOME: STATUARY IN THE TOWN OF AMARA WEST, UPPER NUBIA 116 EVIDENCE FROM AMARNA RELIEFS CONCERNING ROYAL STATUES AND THEIR CONTEXTS: HOW ACCURATE WERE THE RELIEFS? 152 RECONSTRUCTING THE STATUARY OF THE COURTYARD OF THE TEMPLE OF KHNUM ON ELEPHANTINE 168 EGYPTIAN AND CYPRIOT STONE STATUETTES IN CONTEXT AT LATE PERIOD NAUKRATIS 180 A CLASSIFICATION OF ‘SACRED’ CACHES IN ANCIENT EGYPT 204 THOUSANDS OF OSIRIS: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS OF THE BRONZES FOUND IN THE TEMPLE OF ‘AYN MANAWÎR AND AT THE SERAPEUM OF MEMPH 218 LOOKING FOR CONTEXTS: RECENT WORK ON THE KARNAK CACHETTE PROJECT 230 TAHARQO AND HIS DESCENDANTS: A STATUE CACHE UPSTREAM OF THE FIFTH NILE CATARACT 250 RITUAL METAL STATUARY IN ANCIENT EGYPT: ‘A LONG LIFE AND A GREAT AND GOOD OLD AGE’ 270 STATUES IN LATE ANTIQUE EGYPT: FROM PRODUCTION AND DISPLAY TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD 290 KILLING OR ‘DE-ACTIVATING’ EGYPTIAN STATUES: WHO MUTILATED THEM, WHEN, AND WHY? 302 "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 and houses, and the later biographies of statues' assemblages" 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?0New 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 and houses, and the later biographies of statues assemblages