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Abstract - This paper explores processes of
cultural appropriation, and specifically Augustan
visual receptions of pharaonic Egypt. As a test case, I
consider the possibility of Egyptianizing precedents
for the Ara Pacis, including the architecture of Middle
and New Kingdom jubilee chapels. This requires looking
at the Augustan interventions into the traditional
temple complexes of Egypt, the transmission of imperial
ideas about pharaonic Egypt to Rome, their uses there,
and the role of pharaonic appropriations within a
broader landscape of Aegyptiaca in Rome. |