Голова статуи Птолемея V из собрания ГМИИ имени А.С. Пушкина и проблема «египтизации» царской власти Птолемеев в конце III – начале II вв. до н.эстатья
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Аннотация:The article discusses a sculpture head in the A.S. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (no. I, 1a 5429) and its analogies, which all seem to belong to the cult statues of Ptolemy V worshipped privately by members of the Egyptian elite according to the Rosetta Decree of 196 B.C. These artifacts show a degree of hellenization in iconography (rendering of hair, facial asymmetry) and obviously represent the portrait features of the young king, unlike strictly Egyptian and conventional objects of the earlier Ptolemaic royal sculpture. However, a number of scholars believed that the period, to which these cult images belonged, was marked with the “Egyptianization” of the Ptolemaic kingship. The term is questionable, as the Egyptians paid attention not so much to the native or alien origin or entourage of a king rulers as to his ability to perform ritual and, respectively, his sacrality. The alleged “Egyptianization” was highlighting these qualities (namely, the embodiment of Horus, son of Osiris and Isis, providing the sacrality) in Ptolemy IV and V. This accent in propaganda was backed by the need to deal with the native opposition since the mid-3rd century B.C. The “lock of youth” on the statues of Ptolemy V indicated the presence of Horus in him, and their hellenization and individuality stressed that his alien origin and young age was not an obstacle to that. Thus, the trend discussed was not an “Egyptianization” but rather a strong personalization of the basic notions of royal cult in the Ptolemaic kings.