ABSTRACT
Archaeological and art-historical investigations explicitly focused on ‘archaism’ offer little of analytical use because the concept of archaism in art history does its most profitable work when it is seen as an aspect of a modernism (Rather 1993). Moreover, cultural temporalities – such as archaism and modernism – should be distinguished from replicatory histories such as the survivals and revivals that seem, in some Egyptological accounts, to be virtually identical with archaism. 1
