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Apanda
- Great hall of the palace
- stone columns
- capped with paired bulls
- Interesing b/c columns unknown in Mesopatomia
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Pallete of Narmer (Front)
- Cat necks together= Upper/Lower egypt connected
- Depression held eye makeup
- King Narmer hierarchial scale
- King/dead from 2 views= clarity
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Pallete of Narmer (back)
- 3000 BCE
- Human handed falcon= God horus
- Horus= Protector of the Pharorahs
- Falcon hold lower egypt
- Oldest label art
- See king as god like figure
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Mastabas
- Egyptian Tomb
- interior walls decorated with reliefs
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Step Pyramid of King Djsoer
- 2750 BCE
- By earliest named artist Imhotep
- Displayed power with height
- Resembles Mesopatomia ziggurat
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- Unfluted with head
- Bell Capital represents papyrus stalks
- Engaged columns
- Imhotep didnt trust column to stand alone
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Great Pyramids at Giza
- Built by Khufu. Khafre. Menkure
- covered in limestone
- Face east towards rising sun
- Oreinted cardinal points
- Each pyramid had temple connected to path
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The Great Sphinx
- 2500 BCE
- Carved in situ (in place)
- Earliest colussus
- Might be image of Khafre
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King Djoser Scupture
- Recovered from Saqqara
- Frontal, stiff, compact
- Imhotep made
- 2750 BCE
- Subtractive method
- Bilaterally Symmetrical
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Satue of Khafre
- 2500 BCE
- Calm, Order, Stability
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Menkaure and Khamerernbty
- 2500 BCE
- King with Queen
- Frontal, compact, stiff
- Stresses strength of Pharoahs
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Menkaure between 2 goddesses
- Touching shoulders = intimacy
- Left cow goddess Hathor
- Hathor= Protector of Pharoahs
- Menkaure in front of Gods
- 2500 BCE
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Ka-Aper
- 2500 BCE
- Sculpture life like
- Recovered from a mastaba in Saqqara
- Stiff Stance
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Seated Scribe
- As status declines, realism goes up
- From Saqqura Now in (Lourve in France)
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Ti wathcing a hippo hunt
- 2400 BCE
- Ridges are swamp of stalks
- No attempt for distance
- Composite view
- Ti's skirt and arrows are parallel (Order)
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