Down the Nile, into the Mediterranean
“Hippopotamus” (2nd century), artist unknown. Roman. Rosso antico. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. Photo by Ole Haupt“Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World” at the Getty Twenty-five centuries along the Mediterranean Because of its scope and depth, it’s best to have an initial understanding of what “Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World” has set out to achieve. “The overarching goal of this exhibition,” notes Jeffrey Spier, “is for visitors to understand Egypt, Greece, and Rome not as monolithic, separate entities but as cultures that shared and exchanged aspects of their religion, artistic traditions, languages, and customs in an evolving milieu.” “Sarcophagus of Wahibreemakhet” (664-525 B.C.), artist unknown. Egyptian. Basalt. National Museum of Antiquities, LeidenSpier is the Getty Museum’s senior curator of antiquities, and the co-author (with Timothy Potts and Sara E. Cole) of this visual banquet, on view through September 9 at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Spier, Potts, and Cole also edited the comprehensive catalogue, which includes contributions from scholars the world over. The catalogue further enlightens the visitor, or in this case the reader, as to…
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