T繹r繹k (archaeology, Hungary Academy of Sciences) discusses the monuments of Meriotic architecture, sculpture, and minor arts created under the influence of the Hellenistic and Hellenizing
architecture, sculpture, and minor arts of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. He argues that the Nubian reception of Egyptian Hellenistic and Hellenizing art was inner directed all the way through, not
so much in any grand theoretical way, but in terms of individual cases as they succeed each other through the Meriotic kingdom from the first luxury objects through the long-lived and widely
distributed genres such as fine decorated pottery. His topics include images of Egypt's multicultural identity in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, Hellenizing architecture and sculpture in
Meroe City, the great enclosure at Musawwarat es Sufra, and the autonomy of Nubian acculturation. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
