Word: khephren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bottom of the garden, nearly 3,000 years before the birth of Christ, Egyptians of the "Old Kingdom" produced temples and sculptures that their successors could never surpass. As an example of the earliest and best in Egyptian art, Drioton picks a statue of King Khephren, the man who built the Great Sphinx. Except for the falcon of the royal ancestor-god Horus, which perches like a thought behind King Khephren's head, the portrait shows none of the symbolic attributes of royalty. "And yet," Drioton says, "such is the majesty emanating from this statue of an almost naked...
Near Smile. About 1000 B.C., court artists tried to set the clock back to old King Khephren's time. The new sculptures went back only part way. "They never indeed recaptured the old robust vigor and naturalness," Drioton says. They had "a softness, almost a smile, which links them with the archaic Greek sculpture whose contemporaries they were." A seated scribe looking for all the world like a modern businessman on a holiday at the beach was one of the period's best products...
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