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Palette of King Narmer
Hierakonopolis
Egypt
c.3000-2920BC
Medium-Slate
Size-2ft 1 inches tall.
Utility object for mixing coal. Narmer destroys enemy on one side, on the other he parades around their heads. Intertwined heads of beasts, theme of unification of Egypt. |
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Imhotep, stepped pyramid of Djoser
Saqqara, Old Kingdom
c.2630-2611BC
Medium-Mudbrick
Size-200 ft tall
Made for King Djoser, 3rd dynasty. Resembles Ziggurat. Tomb not a temple platform. Dual function to protect king and symbolize his godlike power. Series of stacked Mastabas. |
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Entrance to mortuary precint of Djoser
Saqqara, Old Kingdom
c. 2630-2611 BC
Engaged columns attached to a wall. |
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Great Pyramids
Gizeh, Old Kingdom
Fourth Dynasty
c. 2550-2450BC
Khufu 480ft tall oldest
Khafre 470 ft tall? middle
Menkaure, 1/10 size of Khufu.
200 ft tall. flanked by queen pyramids.
Would have been sheathed in marbles, faced east. |
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Great Sphinx
Gizeh, old Kingdom
Part of Khafre Valley Temple
c.2520-2494 BC
260ft long, 65 ft tall, faces east.
Wards off evil. Carved out of living rock. Headdress called Nemes. Portrait of Khafre. |
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Khafre
Gizeh, Old Kingdom
c. 2520-2494
Medium- Diorite
Size-5"6' tall but seated. Life-size. Dark hard stone imported from south. Stoic, timless. Muscular. Protected by Horus from his head. |
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Menkaure and Khamereneby
Gizeh, Old Kingdom
c. 2490-2472BC
Size-4ft 6 and 1/2 inches
Medium-Also Diorite it seems.
High relief. Up against wall in niche. Presented by first wife as a favorite. Wore a wig. Wands of horus. Prayers or spells on papyrus rolled up. Substitute bodies. Left foot forward. |
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Seated Scribe
From his mastaba at Saqqara of Ti
Saqqara, Old Kingdom
c.2450-2350BC
Tiny sculpture Painted statue of wood or stone. K was someone of wealth. Higher than average, right hand held stylus, thin lips, ponchy belly. middle aged educated man. |
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Ti Watching a Hippo Hunt
Mastaba of Ti
Saqqara Old Kingdom
c. 2450-2350BC
Painted Limestone
Official overseer over cattle and pultry
Royal Hairdresser. Best preserved.
Represents bounty wealth leisure in afterlife. |
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Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut
Upper Egypt
New Kingdom
c.1473-1458BC
Three ascending columnated terraces composed of rectangular pillars. Looks nothing like original. Used to be brightly painted. Planted with trees. |
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Hatshepsut with Offering Jars
Mortuary Temple, Old Kingdom
c.1473-1458BC
Medium-Red Granite
Size-8"6'
Depicts Hatshepsut as a man holding 2 offering jobs. Wearing the nemes of a male pharoah and the clothes. Giving gifts to RA kneeling in the presence of a god. She holds nujars which contain milk or wine. |
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Fowling Scene
Tomb of Nabmun
Thebes, New Kingdom
c.1400-1350BC
Medium-Painted Alabaster
Size- Under life-sized
Official name, scribe and counter of grain. Well preserved wall painting, throws snake stick. Mom and daughter holding lotus flowers. Enjoying recreation in afterlife. Actual types of birds. Specific ranks require certain images. Wife wears scented fat cone. |
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Akhenaton
Temple of Aton
Karnak, New Kingdom
c.1353-1335BC
Size- 13 feet
Medium- Sandstone
Androgymy, effeinate, soft full lips, high cheek bones. Conscious differences. Mgiht be a mix of races, Egyptian, Asiatic, married to Nerfertiti. Seen as a all things. |
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Nefertiti
Thutmose
New Kingdom
c.1353-1335BC
Medium-Painted limestone.
Size- 1"8'
Impossibly long neck. Elongation of all features. Unique headdress-strange cone shaped crown. Rouged lips, left eye unfinished. |
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Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters
New Kingdom
c.1353-1335BC
Size- 1 ft 1/4 inch
Medium- Limestone
Sunken relief. Depicts pharoah never before seen as loving carressing. Elongated proportions. Loving his female children. Girls viewed as worthless for the most part till the 19th century. Ankhs at the end of the rays of the sun. Ankhs symbolise life. |
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Death Mask of Tutankhamen
Thebes, New Kingdom
c.1323 BC
Medium-Gold lapis Lazulli
Size-Face Sized, it's a mask!
False beard, dual crown of vulture and cobra. Perfect 18 face and his features probably fit the mask well. |
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Painted Chest
Tomb of Tutankhamen
New Kingdom
c.1323BC
Size-1"8inches long
Medium-Painted Wood
Two different ethnic groups going to war. Tut as a sphinx on one side. Small box. Asian enemies fall before Tut in chaos. |
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Temple of Ramses II
Abu Simbel
New Kingdom
c.1290-1224 BC
Size-65 feet tall
Medium-Sandstone
Last great warrior king. Likely the pharoah that the Jews escaped from. Broken body due to the Earthquake. Faces east, the sun would have gone into the temple. |
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Interior of the Temple of Ramses
Abu Simbel, New Kingdom
c.1290-1224BC
Medium-Sandstone
Size:32 foot tall
images of the King as Osiris. A pillar in the slope of a man. Atlantid. |
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Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer
Thebes
New Kingdom
c. 1290-1280BC
Size- 1"6' high
Medium-Painted papyrus scroll
Book of the coming forth by day. Depicts Hu-Nefer getting his heart weighed against the feather of Maat before the god Osiris, underworld. |
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