Un cas égyptien de texte constitutif de l’image : les statues stéléphores
Stelophorous statues form a short-life typology whose evolution was very fast between the XVth and XIIIth centuries B.C. The wish to represent the prayer to the sun-god led to add to the representation of the praying man a stone-reservation as a stela which joined his forearms together, engraved wit...
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| Language: | fra |
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Presses universitaires du Midi
2013-11-01
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| Series: | Pallas |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/pallas/1338 |
| Summary: | Stelophorous statues form a short-life typology whose evolution was very fast between the XVth and XIIIth centuries B.C. The wish to represent the prayer to the sun-god led to add to the representation of the praying man a stone-reservation as a stela which joined his forearms together, engraved with an hieroglyphic hymn: such a close association of the image-text with the image-attitude designates the stelophorous statue as a hieroglyph as a whole. But, very soon, these two aspects of the hieroglyphic stelophorous statue were dissociated to give birth to the representation of the stela just as a luxury object, which was representative of the high rank of its owner, without any link to the cult of the sun. |
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| ISSN: | 0031-0387 2272-7639 |