TAILIEUCHUNG - OLD KINGDOM SCULPTURE WILLIAM STEVENSON SMITH
The contributors to the conference comprised a mixture of art historians, curators, museum studies lecturers, anthropologists, archaeologists and artists, and the conference timetable positioned established academics alongside scholars at an earlier stage in their research and writing careers. dana Arnold, Barbara Bender, Thomas dowson, Anna wagner and Jon wood chaired the various sessions, and the speakers included Jonathan Black, Fred Bohrer, Stephanie Brown, Simon Callery, Nicholas Cullinan, Mark dion, Thomas dowson, Eugene dwyer, Christopher Evans, Margaret Garlake, Talinn Grigor, Cornelius Holtorf, Andrew Jones, Sian Jones, Claudine Mitchell, Fred Orton, Sven Ouzman, will rea, Helen rees leahy, Fay Stevens,. | OLD KINGDOM SCULPTURE WILLIAM STEVENSON SMITH Reprinted from the American Journal of Archaeology Vol. XLV 1941 No. 4 OLD KINGDOM SCULPTURE An article by Alexander Scharff of Munich in the last number of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology vol. 26 pp. 41 ff. provides a challenging interpretation of the development of Old Kingdom art in Egypt. Since this is a commendable attempt to replace former vague attributions of undated sculpture by an analysis of stylistic changes in Dynasties III-VI it is all the more necessary to examine the evidence upon which he has based his conclusions. One great difficulty is that Scharff has not had access to much of the material from Giza which is necessary to provide a chronological background for Old Kingdom art. It is not possible to gain a complete picture of that enormous site from Junker s admirable publications since they deal with only a portion of the field and do not touch upon the important royal cemetery east of the First Pyramid. In view of the fact that Dr. Reisner s first volume of the final publication of the Giza Necropolis and my own book on Old Kingdom sculpture have been delayed in the press by the war it seems only fair to make available the evidence from Giza which has a bearing upon Scharff s article. In the first place while agreeing that the Third Dynasty was a period of experimentation particularly in architecture I do not believe that it is fair to say that the artists of the Third Dynasty made various experiments without achieving a definitive style. This is particularly unfair when the Step Pyramid and Hesy-ra reliefs are mentioned in connection with the inlaid paste reliefs of Nefermaat and the painted geese of Medum which certainly belong to the reign of Sneferuw. Those reliefs which can be dated definitely to the reign of Zoser that is those from the Step Pyramid the wooden panels of Hesy-ra and the Heliopolis fragments in Turin all show a very fine low type of relief similarly slender proportions of .
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