The aim of this paper is to shed light on chronology, spatial distribution, iconography and social aspects of late Middle Kingdom faience figurines. These small statuettes, made in faience, represent a broad range of animals taken both from the wild fauna and from the domestic environment; they also include human (such as dwarves and truncated female figures) and hybrid (such as Aha/Bes and Ipy/Taweret) beings, and objects of the vegetal and inanimate worlds. The corpus taken into consideration in this paper relates only to those figurines (ca. 620 items) coming from documented archaeological contexts. A full list of figurines is appended to the text in order to provide summary information on their archaeological context, the types in use, their pattern of distribution in different geographical sectors (in Egypt and in adjacent areas, such as Nubia and Levant), and full bibliographic references.

Unbroken stories: Middle Kingdom faience figurines in their archaeological context

MINIACI, GIANLUCA
2017-01-01

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The aim of this paper is to shed light on chronology, spatial distribution, iconography and social aspects of late Middle Kingdom faience figurines. These small statuettes, made in faience, represent a broad range of animals taken both from the wild fauna and from the domestic environment; they also include human (such as dwarves and truncated female figures) and hybrid (such as Aha/Bes and Ipy/Taweret) beings, and objects of the vegetal and inanimate worlds. The corpus taken into consideration in this paper relates only to those figurines (ca. 620 items) coming from documented archaeological contexts. A full list of figurines is appended to the text in order to provide summary information on their archaeological context, the types in use, their pattern of distribution in different geographical sectors (in Egypt and in adjacent areas, such as Nubia and Levant), and full bibliographic references.
2017
978-90-429-3495-5
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