Paper short abstract:

Catarina Miranda addresses in her communication the sculpture in the round of Ptolemaic pharaohs in Egyptian territory, aiming to contribute to a re-understanding of the phenomenon of artistic contact in these representations.

Paper long abstract:

Ptolemaic royal sculpture offers a vast array of statues, some of which attracted much attention for the ways they framed in a single piece distinct artistic traditions - Greek and Egyptian in particular.

Egyptology, for disciplinary reasons, has only turned to investigate the phenomenon of intercultural interactions in recent decades, but the Ptolemaic dynasty (c. 4th BCE - 1st CE) immediately benefited of great prominence, for the multitude of sources available. Nonetheless, the theoretical and conceptual apparatus has struggled to incorporate anthropological knowledge on this matter, a matter which has been long and deeply studied in this discipline.

Interdisciplinarity is both welcomed and pursued in this investigation, in an attempt at providing new readings of this object.

The concern of the study is both ontological and epistemological: it is equally concerned with the material and the words that have named it and interpreted the phenomenon of cultural contact evinced.

The paper will present some of the highlights of the investigation.