
Ramesses Loved by Ptah: The History of a Colossal Royal Statue
Nurtilek Abdimalikov
Susanna Thomas.
AUC Press, 2022.
“The functions of statues ... were to act as representations, to be a substitute for who they were representing and also to act as a physical host for various non-physical or spiritual aspects of the entity so that they could be present and participate in rituals.”
—From Ramesses Loved by Ptah
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