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• Title:Egyptian art in the age of the pyramids.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
  
• Published/Created:New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N5350 .E37 1999
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N5350 .E37 1999
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Art, Egyptian--Exhibitions.
  Art, Ancient--Egypt--Exhibitions.
  Egypt--Antiquities--Exhibitions.
  Egypt--Architecture--Exhibitions.
  
• Description:xxiii, 536 p. : illustrations (some color)
  
• Notes:Catalogue of an exhibition to be held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 16, 1999-Jan. 9, 2000.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0870999060 (HC)
  0870999079 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Directors' Foreword / Francoise Cachin, Philippe de Montebello and Lindsay Sharp
  Acknowledgments / Dorothea Arnold, Krzysztof Grzymski and Christiane Ziegler
  A Note on Egyptian Chronology / Elisabeth David
  Dynastic and Regnal Dates / James P. Allen
  Introduction / Dorothea Arnold and Christiane Ziegler
  Introductory Essays. A Brief History of the Old Kingdom / Jean Leclant. The Step Pyramid Precinct of King Djoser / Jean-Philippe Lauer. Pyramids and Their Temples / Audran Labrousse. The Tombs of Officials: Houses of Eternity / Peter Janosi. Old Kingdom Statues in their Architectural Setting / Dieter Arnold. Royal Statuary / Krzysztof Grzymski. Nonroyal Statuary / Christiane Ziegler. Reserve Heads: An Enigma of Old Kingdom Sculpture / Catharine H. Roehrig. Royal Reliefs / Dorothea Arnold. The Human Image in Old Kingdom Nonroyal Reliefs / Nadine Cherpion. Furniture of the Old Kingdom / Julie Anderson. Stone Vessels: Luxury Items with Manifold Implications / Dorothea Arnold and Elena Pischikova. Excavating the Old Kingdom: From Khafre's Valley Temple to the Governor's City at Balat / Nicolas Grimal. Excavating the Old Kingdom: The Giza Necropolis and other Mastaba Fields / Peter Der Manuelian. Excavating the Old Kingdom: The Egyptian Archaeologists / Zahi Hawass
  Catalogue. Third Dynasty. Fourth Dynasty. Fifth Dynasty. Sixth Dynasty.