Palette of King
Narmer, 30002920 BCE
Flashcard
image
Commemorates
unification of
Egypt
Conquered
march dwellers
Hierarchy of
scale
Hierakonpolis / Egyptian
Museum, Cairo
Palette of Nar-mer
Side 2
Eye makeup
well on
palette
Goddess Hathor
on both sidesHorus helping King
Marching to view
headless bodies
Long necked lions
symbolize
unification
Flashcard image - Great Pyramids of Giza
IV Dynasty (Old Kingdom) Khafre, Khufu, Menkaure. Granite and limestone
Size: height of pyramid of Khufu, 450' (137 m)
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Menkaure and Queen
Khamerernebty
Flashcard
image
Medium: Graywacke with traces red & black paint
54½ inches high
Date: Fourth Dynasty (ruled 2490–2472 BCE)
OLD KINGDOM
Source/Museum: from Giza / Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston Harvard University–MFA Expedition
Equal scale
Embrace
Sheer dress on
Queen
Seated Scribe
(FLASHCARD)
Painted limestone; eyes of rock
crystal mounted in copper
Size: height 21"
Date: Fifth Dynasty, c.
2450–2325 BCE
OLD KINGDOM
Shows how different classes
were portrayed.
Much smaller than statues of
Pharoahs, etc. (21” vs life
size or over sized”
Limestone, not more elegant
materials
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Head of Senusret III
Yellow quartzite
17¾ X 13½ X 17"
More realistic
Looks tired,
older
Middle Kingdom
Twelfth Dynasty, c.
c. 1836–1818 BCE
Dynamic King
who led 4
expeditions into
Nubia;
overhauled
administration
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Queen Hatshepsut Enthroned
New Kingdom, 1473-1458 BCE
FLASHCARD IMAGE
20 year reign, 1st female Pharoah
portrayed in art
Sometimes shown as male w/false
beard
Led diplomacy with Punt
Built incredible funerary temple
positioned against high cliffs, oriented
towards Karnak
Fowling Scene, Tomb of Nebamum, 1400 BCE
(New King.), fragment of wall painting, British
Museum
Flashcard image, not in book
•18th dynasty
•Suggests distance &
movement
•Animals, butterflies
naturalistic
•Wife/daughter
smaller than
Nebamum (hierarchy
of scale)
•Hieroglyphic: enjoying himself
and seeing beauty, (Forever
young?)
•Marsh symbolizes rebirth
•Cat can symbolize deity hunting
enemies of light and order
Queen Nefertiti
(flashcard)
Fave wife of
Ramses III
1302-1234 BCE
Diplomacy
w/Hittites
18th Dynasty/
“mother of
kings”
New Kingdom
Book of Dead
Painted limestone
Shown w/God
Horus
frequently
21” (life size)
Tomb found in 1904.
Most impressive
Queen’s tomb found
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Flashcard
image
Funerary
mask of
Tutankhamun
1327 BC
Gold inlaid with
glass and
semiprecious stones
Cairo Museum
New
Kingdom
18th Dynasty
Judgment of Hunefer before Osiris, Scene from Book of the Dead
Painted papyrus, height 15⅝ " (39.8 cm), Nineteenth Dynasty, c. 1285 BCE NEW KINGDOM
Illustration From a Book of The Dead. The British Museum, London
KNOW RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE, HOW THIS WAS USED!
Eater waits for
judgment
Feather of Maat vs.
Heart
Osiris, king of
underworld
Flashcard
image
Rosetta Stone
196 BC
Religious decree
of Pharoah
Talmee
(Cleopatra)
Greek, demotic,
hieroglyphic
writing
20 yrs to
decipher
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