Valley High School
Ms. Sweet-Shibles
Rosetta Stone
196 BCE
Palette of King Narmer
from Hierakonpolis, Egypt, Predynastic, c. 3000-2920 B.C.E., slate, 2' 1" high (Egyptian Museum, Cairo)
Ancient Egyptian Art
Key Points:
Isolated geographic location, which makes it easy to defend and creates a homogenious culture.
The Nile river provides a huge amount of argicultural sustainablity and prosperity
The Pharoh is the "god-king"
Large amountof diorite and limestone for architectures
Strong belief in the afterlife: Elaborate funerary traditions, objects and tomb architecture.
Vocab:
mastaba
step pyramid
frontal
pylon
hypostyle hall
register
discriptive perspective
Mycerinus and his Queen
2470 BCE, 4th Dynasty.
Slate, 56" Giza,
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Katep and His Wife
2563 BCE, 4th dynasty
Painted limeston
18 1/2"
found near Memphis
British Museum, London
Old Kingdom
Middle Kingdom
Seated Scribe
2400 BCE 5th Dynasty
Painted Limestone
21"
Sakkara.
The Louvre Paris
New Kingdom
Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
about 1480 BCE 18th dynasty
House Altar depicting Akhenaten,Nefertitiand
Three of their Daughters,
limestone, New Kingdom,
Amarna period, 18th dynasty,
c.1350 BCE
Queen Nefertiti
1360 BCE
18th Dynasty
Painted Limestone
20"
Hunefer's Judgement
Book of the Dead
19th Dynasty c1275 BCE
Papyrus
Thebes
British Museum