A geometric morphometrics application to study potrait shape variations from Neferhotep’s tomb -TT49-, XVIII Dinasty, New Kingdom, Egypt
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The purpose of this work is to study morphological variations in a sample of portraits from Neferhotep’s tomb -TT49-, dated to the end of the XVIII dynasty (New Kingdom, Egypt), applying geometric morphometric techniques. The main aim is analyze quantitatively the portrait shape variations by means of landmark-based methods, using photographs and digitized traced designs from the portraits of the epigraphic record of the Theban tomb.
Our interest is to assess the existence of shape variations between female and male portraits and among individuals of different social rank. The analyses show there are significant morphological differences in both cases, suggesting the existence of canons or rules in the representation of human portraits according to the groups of individuals identified here. Therefore geometric morphometric methods are a useful and innovative statistical tool to study shape variations in the funerary record during the New Kingdom (ca. 1550-1200 B.C.) that might be also applied to other study contexts.
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