Egyptian Sculpture: Archaic to Saite. From the Petrie Collection

Important corpus of eclectic range of less well known Egyptian statues of varying quality and subject matter, including examples in wood.

This facsimile reissue of Anthea Page’s catalog of the stone and wooden statuary in the Petrie Museum makes available again a major corpus of material. The bulk of statuary in the museum was purchased since the finest sculpture from Petrie’s own excavations rightly went to Cairo and other museums. While the sculpture in his own collection covers the whole ...