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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness: [QB] Amun-Ra The Ultimate, in different Eygptian time periods there have been stylistic trends where people get portrayed as a smiliar type. Coffins tend to be like this. However in looking at the reserve heads we find several different types. Some examples: [IMG]http://zoom.mfa.org/fif=sc1/sc197486.fpx&obj=iip,1.0&wid=568&cell=568,427&cvt=jpeg[/IMG] [IMG]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3090/2551834905_1d56f0128c.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.gizapyramids.org/media/studies/C6/C6396_NS.jpg[/IMG] ^^^ this leads one to believe that the reserve heads were not a stylized idealistic type, each one looks different. like an individual They are considered to be some the earliest examples of portrait sculptures Below are some intersting items, not a reserve heads it is a plaster cast of an actual human face, like what would later become known in European traditions as the death mask: Modeled plaster cast of a face, 5th-6th dynasty 2513-2191 BCE Giza, West cemetery, shaft 344/346, from the 1912/13 Excavations by H. Junker Kunsthistorisches Museum. [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/November13-10_PlasterCastOfAFace_KunsthistorischesMuseum.jpg/511px-November13-10_PlasterCastOfAFace_KunsthistorischesMuseum.jpg[/IMG] Another: Plaster death mask, from Giza. 6th dynasty. Gypsum. H 28.5 cm. IN 2386. Roemer-Pelizaeus Museum [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Plaster_mask_Hildesheim.jpg/482px-Plaster_mask_Hildesheim.jpg[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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