Hellenizing Art in Ancient Nubia 300 Bc - Ad 250 and Its Egyptian Models

Torok (archaeology, Hungary Academy of Sciences) discusses the monuments of Meriotic architecture, sculpture, and minor arts created under the influence of the Hellenistic and Hellenizing architecture, sculpture, and minor arts of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. He argues that the Nubian reception of Egyptian Hellenistic and Hellenizing art was inner directed all the way through, not so much in any grand theoretical way, but in terms of individual cases as they succeed each other through the Meriotic kingdom from the first luxury objects through the long-lived and widely distributed genres such as fine decorated pottery. His topics include images of Egypt's multicultural identity in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, Hellenizing architecture and sculpture in Meroe City, the great enclosure at Musawwarat es Sufra, and the autonomy of Nubian acculturation. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Laszlo Torok, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in History (1992), Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1995), and Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2004), is Research Professor at the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has published extensively on the history and archaeology of ancient Nubia, and Hellenistic and Late Antique art in Egypt, including Transfigurations of Hellenism (Brill, 2005) and Between Two Worlds. The Frontier Region between Ancient Nubia and Egypt 3700 BC-AD 500 (Brill, 2009).