{"product_id":"portraits-of-the-ptolemies-9780292777729","title":"Portraits of the Ptolemies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, Paul Edmund Stanwick undertakes the first complete study of Egyptian-style portraits of the Ptolemies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This study of Ptolemaic royal statuary will be an outstanding resource for scholars and of considerable interest to the general reader. As an Egyptological reference and as a model for the application of the methodology of art historical analysis, it should stand unchallenged for many years.... a work of encyclopedic breadth and impeccable scholarship.\" Jack A. Josephson, author of Egyptian Royal Sculpture of the Late Period, 400-246 B.C.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Preface \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Definitions and conventions \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Dynastic chronology \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1: A unique vantage point \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2: The priestly decrees \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3: \"Conspicuous\" and other places \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4: A visual vocabulary \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 5: Ideology and the royal visage \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 6: Chronology \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 7: Powerful traditions, new dynamics \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 8: A generation of innovators \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Appendix A: Sculptors' studies or votives? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Appendix B: Questionable sculptures \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Catalogue \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Abbreviations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Figures \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400882331991,"sku":"9780292777729","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/portraits-of-the-ptolemies-9780292777729","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}