Statues égyptiennes et kouchites démembrées et reconstituées. Hommage à Charles Bonnet. Photographie and German

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Konstantin Kavafis

Statues égyptiennes et kouchites démembrées et reconstituées. Hommage à Charles Bonnet. Photographie and GermanSince Antiquity, many statues of kings, gods, or individuals have been broken in Egypt and Sudan for a variety of reasons: accidents, wars, dynastic rivalries, and proscriptions. But they retained a sacred value for the priests charged with their upkeep, who often collected the fragments in hiding places within the perimeter of the divine domains, such as those at Gebel Barkal or Doukki Gel. Other statues were stolen shortly after their sculpture to