Due to the longtime of interaction between Egypt and different nations, it is easy to find out the exchanges influences through the artistic production. The costumes during Saite Period revealed many innovations elements for both kings and individuals and may these innovation elements mingled with the traditional elements. For example costumes during the Twenty-six Dynasty (Saite) was characterized with many different styles, which appeared in various types of crowns, headdresses, garments and cloaks, and there is interesting Saite kings and Individuals' clothing which are worn in addition to traditional Egyptian clothing. In this paper, I try to answer an important question: Did the, Saites adapt all Egyptian clothing items only without influencing with Libyan and Kushite innovative elements? The article concludes with that, during Saite Period, the kings and individuals did not imitate the costumes of ancestors directly, but followed a new style combining both Egyptian and foreign influences, the costumes (e.g. crowns and headdresses, clothing) during Saite period characterized with archaizing or renaissance features with novelty and innovation. The paper concludes that the costumes of kings and individuals did not only depend on reuse the Old and Middle Kingdom artistic style, but also they add some innovation elements which are foreign.
I shall let you see my beauty in a tunic, of the finest royal linen, soaked with cinnamon oil…' 1 The appearance of Bag-Tunic as favorable dress for all categories of Ancient Egyptian society during New Kingdom may need further investigations. The author through this article will answer important question deal with the widespread usage of the Bag-Tunic for all categories of people in ancient Egypt, the answer will based on explaining the representations (reliefsrounds) of bag-tunic in ancient Egypt for both sex with different ranks and status to determines accurately the main reasons behind its popularity; also to indicate the similarities, differences of this bag-tunic during New Kingdom. The article depends on the statues and reliefs for Kings and individuals during the New kingdom to compare the different styles of the Bag-Tunic which appeared for all classes of people. Analyses to the shape of the bag-tunic and decoration technique have taken place and major features emerged. The paper, then, compared these features and results are discussed. This research was developed using analytical and comparative approaches based on document and picture analyses. The paper concluded that Bag-Tunic appear in New Kingdom as new fashion dress for all different categories of
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