Ancient Egypt

Question 1

Ancient Egypt

Answer 1

• advanced medicine and knowledge of anatomy
• artists were vry talented and capable of representational work
• obsessed wth afterlife
• connectedness to the nile
• post-lintel architecture still relevant

Question 2

People, Boats, and Animals

Answer 2

(3,500-3,200BCE/Predynastic)

• wall painting of men boats and animals from the shrine of Hierkonpolis
• earliest known ancient Egyption mural painting, in part depicting afterworld

Question 3

Mastaba

Answer 3

• Egyptian tomb
• above ground chambers

Question 4

Palette of Narmer

Answer 4

(3,000-2920BCE/Predynastic Egyptian)

-Earliest Restored historical relief, showing unification of Upper and Lower Egypt

Question 5

Khafre from Gizeh

Answer 5

(2,520-2,494 BCE/fourth Dynasty)

• depicts pharoh as divine enthroned ruler
• idealized body in eterna stillness appropriate to afterworld

Question 6

Stepped Pyramid of king Zozer

Answer 6

(2,630-2,611 BCE/Old Kingdom/Third dynasty)

• resembles a series of stacked mastabas diminishing in size
• used as mortuary
• created by first known artist, Imhotep

Question 7

Pyramids of Gizeh

Answer 7

(2,490-2,472 BCE, Menkaure)

(2,551-2528 BCE Khafre)

(2,551-2,528 BCE Khufu)

(Ancient Egyptian-Old Kingdom)

-each pyramid is a part of a vast funerary complex

Question 8

Portrait of Sensuret III

Answer 8

(1,860 BCE/Middle kingdom)

-displays an unprecedented psychological realism during period of political instability

Question 9

Funerary Temple of Queen Hatsheput

Answer 9

(1,473-1,458 BCE/New Kingdom)

• commissioned by feamle pharaoh
• structure incorperates ritualistic processional path leading from nile to inner cliff

Question 10

Akhenaton

Answer 10

(1353-1335 BCE/New Kingdom)

• reflecting his leadership of hew monotheistic religion.
• this image may be an attempt to portray the pharoh as atton, the sexless sun disk