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Palette of KingNarmer, 3000-2920 BCE

Commemoratesunification ofEgypt

Conqueredmarch dwellers

Hierarchy ofscale

Hierakonpolis / EgyptianMuseum, Cairo

Palette of Nar-mer

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Goddess Hathoron both sides-Horus helping King

Marching to viewheadless bodies

Long necked lionssymbolizeunification

Eye makeupwell onpalette

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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 QueenKhamerernebty

Medium: Graywacke with traces red & black paint54½ inches highDate: Fourth Dynasty (ruled 2490–2472 BCE)

OLD KINGDOMSource/Museum: from Giza / Museum of FineArts, Boston Harvard University–MFA Expedition

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Equal scale

Embrace

Sheer dress onQueen

Seated Scribe(FLASHCARD)Painted limestone; eyes of rockcrystal mounted in copper

Size: height 21"

Date: Fifth Dynasty, c.2450–2325 BCEOLD KINGDOM

Musée du Louvre, Paris

Shows how different classeswere portrayed.

Much smaller than statues ofPharoahs, etc. (21” vs lifesize or over sized”

Limestone, not more elegantmaterials

Head of Senusret IIIYellow quartzite17¾ X 13½ X 17"Middle KingdomTwelfth Dynasty, c.c. 1836–1818 BCE

More realistic

Looks tired,older

Dynamic Kingwho led 4expeditions intoNubia;overhauledadministration

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Queen Hatshepsut Enthroned

New Kingdom, 1473-1458 BCE

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20 year reign, 1st female Pharoahportrayed in art

Sometimes shown as male w/falsebeard

Led diplomacy with Punt

Built incredible funerary templepositioned against high cliffs, orientedtowards Karnak

Fowling Scene, Tomb of Nebamum, 1400 BCE(New King.), fragment of wall painting, BritishMuseum

•18th dynasty

•Suggests distance &movement

•Animals, butterfliesnaturalistic

•Wife/daughtersmaller thanNebamum (hierarchyof scale)•Hieroglyphic: enjoying himselfand seeing beauty, (Foreveryoung?)

•Marsh symbolizes rebirth

•Cat can symbolize deity huntingenemies of light and order

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Queen Nefertiti

(flashcard)1302-1234 BCE

18th Dynasty/

New Kingdom

Painted limestone

21” (life size)

Tomb found in 1904.Most impressiveQueen’s tomb found

Fave wife ofRamses III

Diplomacyw/Hittites

“mother ofkings”

Book of Dead

Shown w/GodHorusfrequently

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Funerarymask ofTutankhamun

1327 BCGold inlaid withglass andsemiprecious stones

Cairo Museum

NewKingdom

18th Dynasty

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Judgment of Hunefer before Osiris, Scene from Book of the DeadPainted papyrus, height 15⅝ " (39.8 cm), Nineteenth Dynasty, c. 1285 BCE NEW KINGDOMIllustration From a Book of The Dead. The British Museum, London

KNOW RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE, HOW THIS WAS USED!

Eater waits forjudgment

Feather of Maat vs.Heart

Osiris, king ofunderworld

Rosetta Stone

196 BC

Religious decreeof PharoahTalmee(Cleopatra)

Greek, demotic,hieroglyphicwriting

20 yrs todecipher

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