On Ptolematic Royal Sculpture

Egyptia n art reflects one of the most enduring artistic traditions of the ancient world.Ptolemy dynasty had a unique vantage point, the Macedonians as Egyptia n pharaohs in thisperiod. The arrival of the hellenistic culture fostered the development of sculptures on alarge scale, one of the most pervasive foreign artistic intrusions during Egypt's millennia ofhistory. But the period was full of strife, development in Ptolema ic royal portraits were setagainst an eventful 300 years. In this article, we discussed in detail on the material,technique, content, characteristic of various style of royal representations.Firstly , we provides a short art historica l introduction of the Pharaonic times .Secondly, this thesis has been divided into four parts to study the royal representationsof this period. These was more tha n one type of royal portrait issued in Egypt by thePtolema ic royal house , our categories are ma inly included: purely Egyptia n-Style ; withGreece feature on Egyptia n-Style; Greek-Style ; Egyptia n elements in Greek-Style royalrepresentations, in addition we talk about the queen's ima ge. This thesis gathered togetherma ny sculptures and studied differences between purely Egyptia n examples and thosehaving Greek features and dated a handful of Ptolema ic royal sculptures ma inly using arigorous stylistic and portrait analysis. The early statues are Egyptia n in style but from thesecond century BC the artists adopt Greek attributes and the costume becomes moreHellenized in appearance. The ima ge of the queen gradua lly same to the goddess Isis. Themost distinctive aspect of Ptolema ic royal portraiture was its blend of Egyptia n and Greekcultures .Any kind of art form are closely linked to the background of its times, art has a clearsense of the times. Similarly, in the Ptolema ic dynasty, the royal sculpture style hardly isinseparable from this historica l milieu. Here, this artical only simply discuss three aspects,ma inly including the relations of the political and religous, and the influences of crosscultural.Last and foremost, this article concludes that Egyptia n-style portraits of the Ptolemies,even those with Greek features , rema in strongly rooted in native conventions .