Hellenizing Art in Ancient Nubia 300 Bc - Ad 250 and Its Egyptian Models : A Study in Acculturation (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East)

This book presents a comprehensive discussion of the culture transfer between Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt and Nubia between 300 BC-AD 250. Hellenizing art in Nubia is treated as a Nubian phenomenon expressing Nubian ideas in which only those aspects of Egyptian and Greek art were adopted that were compatible with those goals.