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Reliefs des Alten Reiches und Verwandte Denkmäler by Karl Martin Review by: Whitney Davis Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol. 20 (1983), p. 126 Published by: American Research Center in Egypt Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40000924 . Accessed: 15/06/2014 02:05 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . American Research Center in Egypt is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 195.78.108.60 on Sun, 15 Jun 2014 02:05:27 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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Reliefs des Alten Reiches und Verwandte Denkmäler by Karl MartinReview by: Whitney DavisJournal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol. 20 (1983), p. 126Published by: American Research Center in EgyptStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40000924 .

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126 JARCEXX(1983)

has read Gardiner's comments in the introduction to his Ancient Egyptian Onomastica.

Anthony Spalinger University of Auckland

RELIEFS DES ALTEN REICHES UND VERWAND- TE DENKMALER, Teil3, by Karl Martin, mit Beitragen von Peter Kaplony (Corpus An- tiquitatum Aegypticarum, Pelizaeus- Museum, Hildesheim, Lieferung 8. Mainz-am-Rhein: Phil- ipp von Zabern, 1980. 4°, pp. 211, 99 pls. DM 68.

With this third volume Dr. Martin has completed his publication of Old Kingdom reliefs and relief fragments in the Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim (AR I and II = CAA Pelizaeus-Museum Lieferungen 3 and 7), with the exception of material (inv. no. 2970) from the mastaba of Whm-kl (Kayser, Die Mastaba des Uhemka, 1964). This volume contains the indices for the complete series (AR I- III) bound as a separate pamphlet. Inventory numbers, royal names, gods' names, private names, place names and provenances, titles and epithets, artifact types, material types, and architectural provenances (such as mastabas at Giza and locations at the Sun-Temple of Niuserre) are indexed. Particularly useful are the two final indices for items of costume and hairstyles depicted in the reliefs and for general subject-matter (including, for example, representations of vases, instances of hiero- glyphs classified by Gardiner's Sign List, depictions of and terms for types of meat). The pamphlet concludes (p. 47) with addenda and corrigenda to the first two fascicles. This fascicle describes a number of inscribed offering basins, ointment palettes, and so on. The descriptions are brief and clear, and well -indexed. For archaeologists and art historians, the highlights of this fascicle will be the two false door tablets (inv. nos. 3047, 3235) and blocks of an offering list (inv. no. 3257, from Mastaba SI 27 129), from Junker's excavations at Giza (add to PM III.l2 [1974], 103-4, 219-20), all dated to the late Sixth Dynasty, a period for which the Pelizaeus- Museum is a rich source, and stelae of the First Inter- mediate Period (inv. nos. 1875, 1884, 4590), thought to be from Akhmim, Naga ed-Der, and Gebelein respec- tively, recently discussed in some detail (Brinks and Stemberg, GM 28 [1978], 25-33, 45-53, 55-61). The stela from Akhmim (?) is published again in excellent color; the piece is an important instance of provincial workmanship - Brinks' attributions are surely correct - and deserves to be better known. These stelae remind us that the archaeology of style in the First Inter- mediate Period is still not well understood. Some regions of Egypt give evidence of considerable conti- nuity in canonical workshop production. Hildesheim 1875 and 1884 are perhaps examples of this trend, with control maintained for most aspects of figure-drawing

and "degeneration" only evident in the treatment of proportions and register-lines. Hildesheim 4590, prob- ably from Naga ed-Der, is very different from these works and matches more closely Smith's picture of this period (History, 217-34); note especially the idiosyncratic treatment of the wife's position and husband's buttocks (Schafer, Principles, 176, on this convention). We know too little about the circum- stances of production to be able to explain these variations - which have always been variously inter- preted. Do artists in the First Intermediate Period merely mishandle canonical conventions, or do they rather, as Senk argued, evolve a "sonder-geometrisch" style of their own (Forschungen und Fortschritte 33 [1959], 236-41, 272-77)? The complete publication of the material in Hildesheim should encourage re-study. The Pelizaeus-Museum is fortunate in being able to document the transition from the so-called "Mem- phite style" of the late Sixth Dynasty (compare the Giza reliefs with Sakkara: Quibell, Excavations I [1905- 6], pls. 19-20, II [1906-7], pls. 8-10; Firth and Gunn, Teti Pyramid Cemeteries [1926], pls. 68-75) to the manners of the First Intermediate Period along a specific, and illuminating, pathway of systematic devia- tion from the "classic." It is perhaps still too early to evaluate the overall priorities of the CAA, upon which so much energy is evidently being expended; perhaps the usefulness of catalogues can be increased by occa- sionally venturing more speculative, synthetic, and comparative analyses of the separate objects. But Dr. Martin is certainly to be congratulated for his sig- nificant and expeditious additions to the series.

Whitney Davis Society of Fellows, Harvard University

STUDIEN ZUR ALTAGYPTISCHEN KERAMIK by Dorothea Arnold, ed. (Mainz-am-Rhein: Philipp von Zabern/Deutsches Archaologisches Institut Abteilung Kairo, 1981).

This volume contains eleven studies by twelve authors, in French, German, and English, on aspects of ceramic typology, technology, and history in ancient Egypt, and some excellent examples of archaeological inference from ceramic evidence. The techniques of archaeological science are well represented in three technical papers. Josef Frechen presents a petrographic examination of material from Thebes, considering mineralogical composition, porosity, internal struc- ture, and other variables. A number of technical and typological issues are reviewed in Walter Noll's lengthy analysis of painted ceramics, of varying provenances and dates. C. A. Hope, H. Mark Blauer, and Josef Riederer investigate 18th Dynasty clay types on the basis of sherds from Amarna and Malkata. Their study

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