A Iv Dynasty Portrait Head
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At the turn of the century scholars of Egyptian art were startled by the appearance of life-size portrait heads in excavations at Gizeh, the site of a large necropolis of the Old Kingdom. Until their discovery it was considered an almost invariable rule that private sculpture of the period represented types, not individuals. The Sheikh el Beled and several other representations of individuals were notable exceptions. Oswald Spengler summed up the contemporary view when he wrote: "In Egypt the face of the statue was equivalent to the pylon, the face of the temple plan." Certainly the Egyptian sculptor wished to represent the permanent aspect of a face and not a momentary expression, and so he often eliminated individual traits and approached architectural impersonality. But Spengler's extreme analogy could not now be made. The heads from Gizeh indicate that the
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