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New Kingdom (about 1550-1069 BC) art: private sculpture

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Early 18th Dynasty - Ahmose - Hatshepsut

Sculpture is often rather small in scale, and seems to follow prototypes of the Old and Middle Kingdom (about 2025-1700 BC).

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Mid 18th Dynasty - Thutmose III - Amenhotep II

The sculpture is in general larger in scale. There is the development of new statue types (e.g. stelophorous).

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a stelophorus made in clay; from Thebes
Page 1976: 84, no. 92
Page 1976: 84, no. 92
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Page 1976: no. 65

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part of a statue of the vizier Rekhmira
other view (the back, with a modern inscription)
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Late 18th Dynasty - Amenhotep III and post-Amarna Period

Sculpture reaches exceptionally high standards. Amarna private sculpture is rarey attested: the few examples follow the depiction of the king.

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from Bubastis, datable under Amenhotep III
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Ramesside Period

Sculpture is sometimes on a great scale, but the workmanship can be quite rough.

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from Abydos
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from Abydos
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(dated under Ramesses II)
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the mayor of the southern city Paser
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