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Beautifully illustrated with photographs of the statue and contextual images, and including archival material relating to the British Museum’s acquisition, this book tells the story of this magnificent artefact, discussing alongside the draw of colossal Egyptian sculpture, the history of the reign of Ramesses II and the nature of the statue’s acquisition.
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Anna Garnett is Assistant Project Curator in Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum. Her research interests include ceramics from New Kingdom Egyptian sites in Nubia, Egyptian royal sculpture and colossal statuary and New Kingdom religious architecture. She is currently working on the Amara West Project where her responsibilities include the study and publication of the ceramics excavated from the New Kingdom town at Amara West as part of an on-going British Museum fieldwork project.
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One of the largest pieces of Egyptian sculpture in the British Museum, the upper part of the colossal statue of Ramesses II, also known as the Younger Memnon, was perhaps the first piece of Egyptian sculpture to be recognized as a work of art by connoisseurs, who traditionally judged things by the s tandards of ancient Greek art. Beautifully illustrated with photographs of the statue and contextual images, and including archival material relating to the British Museums acquisition, this book tells the story of this magnificent artefact, discussing alongside the draw of colossal Egyptian sculpture, the history of the reign of Ramesses II and the nature of the statues acquisition .
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