"O ato de fazer oferendas":o uso de imagens na arte egípcia e o modelo iconográfico da estátua faraônica ajoelhada – da XVIII a XXX Dinastia

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze the iconographic model of the Egyptian statuary kneeling in a pharaonic offering position, considering how it is distinguished in the two main periods of its greatest use: the New Empire and the Late Period. This research deals specifically with this representation within the Pharaonic context, since its use suggests a function more directed towards the legitimation of real power and not only the cult of a deity, linked to its religious function. In this sense, what does the concept of legitimation mean in Egyptian art? How does it relate to the use of the image in Ancient Egypt? Since this pose suggests different contexts for its use - which can directly and paradoxically influence its aesthetic relationship -, it will be presented how this figure is characterized in each of these periods, trying to understand how its use occurred in such sparse moments in Egyptian history and showing how a model can be reframed in a broader context of the production of art objects in Egypt: how images can have different meanings, especially in a civilization marked by what is normally interpreted as immutable